October 1 is the birthday of 46 notable people we've found so far, including politicians, actors, authors and entrepreneurs, and 4 of them are billionaires.
Entrepreneur · Sun Pharmaceutical · pharmaceuticals
1955 · India
$28.9Breported estimate as of May 2025 · Forbes
Dilip Shanghvi is an Indian billionaire businessman. Shanghvi is the founder of Sun Pharmaceuticals, a pharmaceutical company. The Government of India awarded him the civilian honor of the Padma Shri in 2016.
Fernando De Leon is a Mexican American billionaire businessman, investor, and philanthropist. He is the founder and chief executive officer of Leon Capital Group, a real estate firm headquartered in Dallas, Texas.
Industries of the companies the 4 wealthy people born on October 1 founded or led.
pharmaceuticals50% (1 people)
technology50% (1 people)
Who shares October 1
What kind of people are born on October 1?
Share of the 46 people we list, by documented field. People can belong to more than one.
Actors28% (13 people)
Politicians28% (13 people)
Authors24% (11 people)
Entrepreneurs22% (10 people)
Creators17% (8 people)
Musicians17% (8 people)
Athletes13% (6 people)
Countries
26 countries, most often United States
Citizenship as recorded on Wikidata, one country per person.
United States10 (10 people)
United Kingdom6 (6 people)
France5 (5 people)
Canada2 (2 people)
Philippines2 (2 people)
Austria1 (1 people)
Bosnia and Herzegovina1 (1 people)
Life timeline
What were people born on October 1 doing at your age?
Dated milestones from Wikidata (company foundings, awards, top jobs, notable works), placed at the age each person reached them. Add your birth year above to see the ones you have passed.
Dame Julie Andrews is an English actress, singer, author and theater director. Her accolades include an Academy Award, a British Academy Film Award, three Emmy Awards, three Grammy Awards, seven Golden Globe Awards and nominations for three Tony Awards.
Brianne Sidonie Desaulniers, known professionally as Brie Larson, is an American actress, singer and filmmaker. She played supporting roles in comedies as a teenager, and has since expanded to leading roles in independent films and blockbusters.
2d Lt Jessica Cicchetto, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons
Richard St John Francis Harris was an Irish actor and singer. Having studied at the London Academy of Music and Dramatic Art, he rose to prominence as an icon of the British New Wave.
City of Boston Archives, CC BY 2.0, via Wikimedia Commons
Theresa Mary May, Baroness May of Maidenhead, is a British politician who served as Prime Minister of the United Kingdom and Leader of the Conservative Party from 2016 to 2019. She previously served as Home Secretary from 2010 to 2016.
Emerald Lilly Fennell is an English actress, auteur filmmaker, and writer. She has received numerous accolades, including an Academy Award, two BAFTA Awards, and nominations for three Primetime Emmy Awards and three Golden Globe Awards.
Margaret Gardiner, CC BY 3.0, via Wikimedia Commons
Devin Gerald Nunes is an American businessman and politician who has served as the chair of the President's Intelligence Advisory Board since January 20, 2025.
Unknown authorUnknown author, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons
Andrus Ansip is an Estonian politician, a former member of the European Parliament, the former European Commissioner for Digital Single Market and Vice President of the European Commission, in office from 2014 until 2019.
Susan Adele Greenfield, Baroness Greenfield, is an English scientist, writer, broadcaster and member of the House of Lords. Her research has focused on the treatment of Parkinson's disease and Alzheimer's disease.
Emilio Botín-Sanz de Sautuola y García de los Ríos, iure uxoris Marquess of O'Shea was a Spanish banker. He was the executive chairman of Spain's Grupo Santander.
Primera_reunión_de_trabajo_del_CSEV.jpg: UNED Universidad Nacional de Educación a Distancia derivative work: Ecemaml, CC BY-SA 3.0, via Wikimedia Commons
George Manneh Oppong Weah is a Liberian politician and former professional footballer who served as the 25th president of Liberia from 2018 to 2024. Before his election for the presidency, Weah served as senator from Montserrado County.
File:George Weah in 2019 (cropped).jpg: U.S. Embassy in Monrovia, Liberia derivative work: Boros.i, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons
Walter John Matthau was an American actor, known for his "hangdog face" and for playing world-weary characters. He starred in 10 films alongside his real-life friend Jack Lemmon, including The Odd Couple (1968) and Grumpy Old Men (1993).
Film screenshot, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons
George Peppard was an American actor. He secured a major role as struggling writer Paul Varjak when he starred alongside Audrey Hepburn in Breakfast at Tiffany's (1961), and later portrayed a character based on Howard Hughes in The Carpetbaggers (1964).
Trailer screenshot, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons
1847–1933 · United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland
Annie Besant was an English socialist, theosophist, freemason, women's rights and activist, educationist, involved in women's rights, Home Rule, and Indian nationalism. She gave support to both Irish and Indian self-rule.
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Doménikos Theotokópoulos, most widely known as El Greco, was a Greek painter, sculptor and architect of the Spanish Renaissance, regarded as one of the greatest artists of all time.
James Allen Whitmore Jr. was an American actor who appeared in over 150 stage, film, and television roles over a 50-year career. He received numerous honors, notably a Grammy Award, a Primetime Emmy Award, and a Tony Award.
Campbell-Ewald Company, advertising agency for the show's sponsor, Chevrolet. Ad or publicity agencies often distributed, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons
Liaquat Ali Khan was a Pakistani lawyer, politician and statesman who served as the first prime minister of Pakistan from 1947 until his assassination in 1951. He played a key role in consolidating the state of Pakistan, much as Muhammad Ali Jinnah did in founding it.
Liaquat Ali Khan, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons
Vladimir Samoylovich Horowitz was a Russian and American pianist. Considered one of the greatest pianists of all time, he was known for his virtuoso technique, timbre, and the public excitement engendered by his playing.
President (1981-1989 : Reagan). White House Photographic Office. 1981-1989 (Most Recent), Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons
Duncan Edwards was an English footballer who played as a left-half for Manchester United and the England national team. He was one of the Busby Babes, the young United team formed under manager Matt Busby in the mid-1950s, playing 177 matches for the club.
Youssou "Madjiguène" N'Dour is a Senegalese singer, songwriter, musician, composer, and politician. N'Dour helped develop a style of popular Senegambian music known as mbalax, a genre that has sacred origins in the Serer music njuup tradition and ndut initiation ceremonies.
Kotoviski photograph by Henryk Kotowski, CC BY-SA 3.0, via Wikimedia Commons
Júlio César Clemente Pereira Baptista is a Brazilian football manager and former player who played as an attacking midfielder or a forward. He is nicknamed "The Beast" due to his size and physical presence on the football field.
Paul Abraham Dukas was a French composer, critic, scholar and teacher. A studious man of retiring personality, he was intensely self-critical and abandoned and destroyed many of his compositions.
William Thomas Beckford was a British writer and politician. He was reputed at one stage to be England's richest commoner. Beckford was the son of William Beckford and Maria Hamilton, the daughter of George Hamilton.
Joshua Reynolds, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons
Otto Robert Frisch was an Austrian physicist who worked on nuclear physics. With Otto Stern and Immanuel Estermann, he first measured the magnetic moment of the proton.
Haris Silajdžić is a Bosnian politician and academic who served as the 5th Bosniak member of the Presidency of Bosnia and Herzegovina from 2006 to 2010.
European Commission, CC BY 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons
Sheikh Saeed bin Maktoum bin Rashid Al Maktoum is an Emirati royal and former sport shooter who represented the United Arab Emirates in men's skeet at five Olympic Games between 2000 and 2016.
Aaron Ciechanover is an Israeli biologist who won the Nobel Prize in Chemistry for characterizing the method that cells use to degrade and recycle proteins using ubiquitin.
Angelina "Helen" Beredo de Luna-Tan is a Filipino physician and politician who has served as the 31st governor of Quezon since 2022. She is the first woman to hold the office.
Sergey Timofeyevich Aksakov was a 19th-century Russian literary figure remembered for his semi-autobiographical tales of family life, as well as his books on hunting and fishing.
Vasily Perov, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons
Benjamin Cueto "Benjie" Agarao Jr. is a Filipino politician and businessman who has served as Member of the Philippine House of Representatives from Laguna's 4th district since 2025, previously holding the seat from 2004 until 2007, and from 2013 until 2022.
House of Representatives of the Philippines, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons
This page lists 46 people born on October 1, every one traced to a Wikidata record and, where shown, a Wikipedia summary (CC BY-SA) and a licensed Wikimedia Commons photo. 4 of them carry a dated net-worth estimate citing Forbes or Bloomberg; combined wealth is the sum of the low end of those estimates, the newest as of March 2026. Rankings compare all 366 dates in the dataset built on 2026-09-28. Milestone ages come from dated Wikidata statements; a tilde marks year-only dates. Nothing on this page is a prediction about anyone born on October 1. Read the full methodology.
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