October 8 is the birthday of 46 notable people we've found so far, including scientists, entrepreneurs, actors and creators, and 3 of them are billionaires.
Terry Guo is a Taiwanese billionaire businessman and politician. Guo is the founder and former chairman and chief executive officer (CEO) of Foxconn, the world's largest contract manufacturer of electronics. Foxconn's English web site renders his surname as Gou.
Wilmot Reed Hastings Jr. is an American billionaire businessman. He is the co-founder of Netflix, which provides the eponymous streaming service. Hastings serves on a number of boards and works with various non-profit organizations.
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Juan Roig Alfonso is a Spanish billionaire businessman, president of the Spanish supermarket chain Mercadona and Valencia Basket. As of November 2024, his net worth was estimated at US$6 billion.
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Share of the 46 people we list, by documented field. People can belong to more than one.
Scientists28% (13 people)
Entrepreneurs24% (11 people)
Actors20% (9 people)
Creators17% (8 people)
Politicians15% (7 people)
Authors13% (6 people)
Athletes11% (5 people)
Countries
27 countries, most often United States
Citizenship as recorded on Wikidata, one country per person.
United States14 (14 people)
France3 (3 people)
United Kingdom3 (3 people)
Germany2 (2 people)
Spain2 (2 people)
Australia1 (1 people)
Brazil1 (1 people)
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Matthew Paige Damon is an American actor, film producer, and screenwriter. He was ranked among Forbes's most bankable stars in 2007, and in 2010 was one of the highest-grossing actors of all time.
Susan Alexandra "Sigourney" Weaver is an American actress. Prolific in film since the late 1970s, she is known for her pioneering portrayals of action heroines in blockbusters and for her various roles in independent films.
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Otto Heinrich Warburg was a German physiologist, medical doctor, and Nobel laureate. He served as an officer in the elite Uhlans (cavalry) during the First World War, and was awarded the Iron Cross for bravery.
Edward Vernon Rickenbacker was an American fighter pilot in World War I and a Medal of Honor recipient. With 26 aerial victories, he was the most successful and most decorated United States flying ace of the war.
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Kikunae Ikeda was a Japanese chemist and Tokyo Imperial University professor of chemistry who, in 1908, uncovered the chemical basis of a taste he named umami. It is one of the five basic tastes along with sweet, bitter, sour and salty.
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Henrich Focke was a German aviation pioneer from Bremen and also a co-founder of the Focke-Wulf company. He is best known as the inventor of the Fw 61, the first successful, practical, and fully controllable helicopter, first flown in 1936.
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Bronislovas Lubys was a Lithuanian entrepreneur, former Prime Minister of Lithuania, signatory of the Act of the Re-Establishment of the State of Lithuania, and businessman.
Alfonso Carlos Romo Garza, known as Alfonso Romo, is a Monterrey businessman, agro-industrialist. He founded the Opción Ciudadana party in 2005. He is the owner of VECTOR Casa de Bolsa, the largest fund management company in Latin America.
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Barbara Sprouse is a Hungarian model and actress. She first appeared in the Sports Illustrated Swimsuit Issue in 2016. In 2019, she became a Victoria's Secret Angel, although she first walked in 2012. She is also an ambassador for Longines and Armani Beauty.
Franklin Patrick Herbert Jr. was an American science-fiction author, best known for his 1965 novel Dune and five sequels to it. He also wrote short stories and worked as a newspaper journalist, photographer, book reviewer, ecological consultant, and lecturer.
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Michael Gregory Mizanin, better known by his ring name the Miz, is an American professional wrestler, actor, and television personality. As a wrestler, he has been signed to WWE since 2004, where he performs on the SmackDown brand.
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Robert Lawrence Stine is an American novelist. He is the writer of Goosebumps, a horror fiction novel series for children which has sold over 400 million copies globally in 35 languages, becoming the second-best-selling book series in history.
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Kristanna Sommer Loken is an American actress. After her modelling career, in which she participated in the 1994 Elite Model Look, Loken started her acting career in 1994 as the third actress to play Danielle 'Dani' Andropoulos on an episode of As the World Turns.
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David Yates is an English filmmaker, who has directed feature films, short films, and television productions. He is best known for directing the final four films in the Harry Potter series and the three films of its prequel series, Fantastic Beasts.
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Garbiñe Muguruza Blanco is a Venezuelan-born Spanish former professional tennis player. She was ranked as the world No. 1 in women's singles by the Women's Tennis Association (WTA), and world No. 10 in doubles.
Edward M. Zwick is an American filmmaker. He has worked primarily in the comedy drama and epic historical film genres and received an Academy Award and a BAFTA Award for his work producing Shakespeare in Love (1998).
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Zvonimir Boban is a Croatian former professional footballer who played as a midfielder, deployed mostly as a central or attacking midfielder. He was known for his technical ability, long-range shooting, and game intelligence.
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Waldyr Pereira, also known as Didi, was a Brazilian footballer who played as a midfielder or as a forward. He played in three FIFA World Cups, winning the latter two.
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Chen Duxiu was a Chinese intellectual, revolutionary, and political activist. Chen Duxiu was one of the founders of the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) in 1921 and served as its first General Secretary from 1921 to 1927.
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Marina Ivanovna Tsvetaeva was a Russian poet. Her work is some of the best known in twentieth-century Russian literature. She lived through and wrote about the Russian Revolution of 1917 and the subsequent Moscow famine.
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Antonio Cabrini is an Italian professional football manager and a former player. He played as a left-back, mainly with Juventus. He won the 1982 FIFA World Cup with the Italy national team.
Claude Marcelle Jorré, better known as Claude Jade, was a French actress. She starred as Christine in François Truffaut's three films Stolen Kisses (1968), Bed and Board (1970) and Love on the Run (1979). Jade acted in theatre, film and television.
Soghomon Soghomonian, ordained and commonly known as Komitas, was an Ottoman-Armenian priest, musicologist, composer, arranger, singer, and choirmaster, who is considered the founder of the Armenian national school of music.
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Zoran Zaev is a Macedonian economist and politician who served as prime minister of North Macedonia from May 2017 to January 2020, and again from August 2020 to January 2022.
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Michael ByungJu Kim is an American billionaire businessman of South Korean origin. He is the founder and chairman of MBK Partners, a North Asian private equity firm with offices in Seoul, Tokyo, Hong Kong, Shanghai, and Beijing.
Henry Louis Le Chatelier was a French chemist of the late 19th and early 20th centuries. He devised Le Chatelier's principle, used by chemists to predict the effect a changing condition has on a system in chemical equilibrium.
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César Milstein, CH, FRS was an Argentine biochemist in the field of antibody research. Milstein shared the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine in 1984 with Niels Kaj Jerne and Georges J. F.
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Nguyễn Minh Triết is a Vietnamese politician who served as the seventh President of Vietnam from 2006 to 2011. He was elected by the National Assembly of Vietnam with 464 votes (94%) in June 2006.
Mary Engle Pennington was an American bacteriological chemist, food scientist and refrigeration engineer. She was an innovator in the preservation, handling, storage, and transportation of perishable foods and the first female lab chief at the U.S. Food and Drug Administration.
Tomáš Čupr is a Czech entrepreneur and investor. He is the founder of the online grocery business Rohlik Group and previously established the discount website Slevomat and the food-delivery service Dáme jídlo. He received the Czech EY Entrepreneur of the Year award for 2021.
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This page lists 46 people born on October 8, every one traced to a Wikidata record and, where shown, a Wikipedia summary (CC BY-SA) and a licensed Wikimedia Commons photo. 3 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 May 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 8. Read the full methodology.
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