October 2 is the birthday of 50 notable people we've found so far, including entrepreneurs, authors, actors and creators, and 4 of them are billionaires.
Alexander Caedmon Karp is an American billionaire businessman and entrepreneur. He is the co-founder and CEO of the software firm Palantir Technologies.
Patricia Matte Larraín is a Chilean sociologist and billionaire, a major shareholder in the Chilean forestry and paper company CMPC, founded by her father.
Share of the 50 people we list, by documented field. People can belong to more than one.
Entrepreneurs32% (16 people)
Authors24% (12 people)
Actors18% (9 people)
Athletes18% (9 people)
Creators18% (9 people)
Scientists16% (8 people)
Politicians14% (7 people)
Countries
20 countries, most often United States
Citizenship as recorded on Wikidata, one country per person.
United States22 (22 people)
United Kingdom5 (5 people)
Belgium2 (2 people)
Brazil2 (2 people)
France2 (2 people)
India2 (2 people)
Japan2 (2 people)
Life timeline
What were people born on October 2 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.
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~17Alisson BeckerJoined Brazil national under-17 football team (2009)
Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi was an Indian lawyer, anti-colonial nationalist and political ethicist who employed nonviolent resistance to lead the successful campaign for India's independence from British rule, and to later inspire movements for civil rights and freedom across the world.
Elliott & Fry, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons
Gordon Matthew Thomas Sumner, known as Sting, is an English musician, songwriter and actor. He was the frontman, principal songwriter and bassist for the rock band the Police.
Maria Angelita Ressa is a Filipino and American journalist and Nobel Peace Prize laureate. She is the co-founder and CEO of Rappler. She previously spent nearly two decades working as a lead investigative reporter in Southeast Asia for CNN.
Cordell Hull was an American politician and diplomat who served as the United States secretary of state for nearly twelve years under President Franklin D. Roosevelt, from 1933 to 1944.
Harris & Ewing, photographer, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons
1852–1916 · United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland
Sir William Ramsay was a Scottish chemist who discovered the noble gases and received the Nobel Prize in Chemistry in 1904 "in recognition of his services in the discovery of the inert gaseous elements in air" along with his collaborator, John William Strutt, 3rd Baron…
Elliott & Fry, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons
Huda Heidi Kattan is an Iraqi makeup artist, beauty blogger and entrepreneur. Her parents were born in Iraq, she was born and raised in the United States, and she moved to Dubai in the United Arab Emirates in 2008.
John Whiteside Parsons was an American rocket engineer, chemist, and Thelemite occultist. Parsons was one of the principal founders of both the Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL) and Aerojet.
Ayumi Hamasaki is a Japanese singer-songwriter and producer. Nicknamed the "Empress of Pop" on account of her influence throughout Asia, she is widely recognized for her versatile music production, songwriting, and live performances.
Laura Cervantes Roura, CC BY 3.0, via Wikimedia Commons
Idan Ofer is an Israeli billionaire businessman and philanthropist, with interests in shipping, energy, mining and sports. He is the founder and the principal of the Quantum Pacific Group, a holding company.
Jonathan Glynn Smith, CC BY-SA 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons
Lorraine Bracco is an American actress best known for her performance as psychiatrist Jennifer Melfi on the HBO crime drama series The Sopranos (1999–2007) and for her breakthrough role portraying Karen Hill in the Martin Scorsese film Goodfellas (1990).
Álisson Ramsés Becker, also known simply as Alisson, is a Brazilian professional footballer who plays as a goalkeeper and serves as vice-captain for Premier League club Liverpool and the Brazil national team. He is regarded as one of the best goalkeepers in the world.
Julius Henry "Groucho" Marx was an American comedian, actor, comic vocalist and game show host who performed in vaudeville, Broadway, films, radio, and television. A master of the one-line retort, he is considered one of America's greatest comedians.
Kevin Oghenetega Tamaraebi Bakumo-Abraham, known as Tammy Abraham, is an English professional footballer who plays as a striker for Premier League club Aston Villa.
Roberto Firmino Barbosa de Oliveira is a Brazilian professional footballer who plays as a forward or attacking midfielder for Qatar Stars League club Al Sadd.
Donald McLean III is an American singer-songwriter and guitarist. Known as the "American Troubadour" or "King of the Trail", he is best known for his 1971 hit "American Pie", an eight-and-a-half-minute folk rock song that has been referred to as a "cultural touchstone".
Anna-Lou Leibovitz is an American portrait photographer best known for her portraits, particularly of celebrities, which often feature subjects in intimate settings and poses.
Robert Scoble from Half Moon Bay, USA, CC BY 2.0, via Wikimedia Commons
Camilla Belle Routh is an American actress. Born and raised in Los Angeles, California, Belle began her acting career with appearances in television commercials before landing her first lead role in NBC's thriller, Trapped Beneath the Earth in 1992.
Joella Marano, CC BY-SA 2.0, via Wikimedia Commons
Michy Batshuayi-Atunga is a Belgian professional footballer who plays as a striker for Saudi Pro League club Abha. He played for the Belgium national team from 2015 to 2024.
Hossein Zohrevand, CC BY 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons
William Alexander "Bud" Abbott was an American comedian, actor and producer. He was best known as the straight man in the comedy duo Abbott and Costello.
Universal-International, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons
John Silas Reed was an American journalist, poet, and communist activist. Reed first gained prominence as a war correspondent during the Mexican Revolution for Metropolitan and World War I for The Masses.
Wikimedia Commons, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons
Jana Novotná was a Czech professional tennis player. She was ranked world No. 2 in women's singles by the Women's Tennis Association (WTA), achieved in July 1997, and as the world No. 1 in women's doubles for 67 weeks.
Andriy Mykhailovych Danylko, better known as his drag persona Verka Serduchka, is a Ukrainian comedian, actor, and singer. He represented Ukraine in the Eurovision Song Contest 2007 as Verka with the song "Dancing Lasha Tumbai", finishing in second place.
Катерина Васильєва, CC BY-SA 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons
Marion Bartoli is a French former professional tennis player. Bartoli won the 2013 Wimbledon Championships singles title, after previously being runner-up in 2007, and was a semifinalist at the 2011 French Open. She also won seven singles and three doubles titles on the WTA Tour.
Clément Bucco-Lechat, CC BY-SA 3.0, via Wikimedia Commons
Wallace Stevens was an American modernist poet. He was born in Reading, Pennsylvania, educated at Harvard and then New York Law School, and spent most of his life working as an executive for an insurance company in Hartford, Connecticut.
Photograph by Sylvia Salmi., Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons
Thomas Muster is an Austrian former professional tennis player. He was ranked as the world No. 1 in men's singles by the Association of Tennis Professionals (ATP). Muster won 44 ATP Tour-level singles titles, including the 1995 French Open and eight Masters titles.
Ardem Patapoutian is a Lebanese-American molecular biologist, neuroscientist, and Nobel Prize laureate of Armenian descent. He is known for his work in characterizing the PIEZO1, PIEZO2, and TRPM8 receptors that detect pressure, menthol, and temperature.
Christopher Michel, CC BY-SA 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons
Jack Dellal was a British property investor, nicknamed "Black Jack". His company, the property group Allied Commercial Holdings, financed the purchase of Shell Mex House in 2002 and sold it in 2007.
Fernando Feliciano "Sonny" Racimo Belmonte Jr., KGCR is a Filipino politician and a lawyer who served as the 20th and 23rd speaker of the House of Representatives of the Philippines from January to June 2001 and from 2010 to 2016.
TOTO LOZANO/PPD, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons
Karl von Terzaghi was an Austrian mechanical engineer, geotechnical engineer, and geologist known as the "father of soil mechanics and geotechnical engineering".
foto fra 1926, ukendt fotograf, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons
Mehmet Osman Kavala is a Turkish economist, businessman, philanthropist, and political activist. Kavala is the founder and chair of the board of Anadolu Kültür, an Istanbul-based nonprofit arts and culture organization.
Willy Otto Oskar Ley was a German and American science writer and proponent of space exploration and cryptozoology. The crater Ley on the far side of the Moon is named in his honor.
Rajesh Saraiya is an Indian industrialist and member of the Dalit Indian Chamber of Commerce and Industry (DICCI). He is considered as the first Dalit billionaire of India.
This page lists 50 people born on October 2, 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 July 2025. 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 2. Read the full methodology.
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