Famous birthdays
Famous people born on October 1
Short answer
Well-known people born on October 1 include Jimmy Carter (1924), Theresa May (1956), Julie Andrews (1935) and Paul I of Russia (1754). Our list below has 90 people for this date, most widely covered first.
This list covers people whose Wikidata record gives October 1 as their exact birth date and who have articles in at least 28 Wikipedia language editions. The earliest birth year here is 1685 (Charles VI, Holy Roman Emperor) and the most recent is 2006 (Priah Ferguson). The most common fields on this date: football, actor, actress.
Who was born on October 1?
- Jimmy Carter 1924 President of the United States from 1977 to 1981
- Theresa May 1956 Prime Minister of the United Kingdom from 2016 to 2019
- Julie Andrews 1935 British actress, singer and author
- Paul I of Russia 1754 The ninth Emperor of Russia from 1796 to 1801
- George Weah 1966 President of Liberia from 2018 to 2024
- Brie Larson 1989 American actress, singer and filmmaker
- Ram Nath Kovind 1945 President of India from 2017 to 2022
- Annie Besant 1847 British socialist, theosophist, women's rights activist, writer and orator
- Charles VI, Holy Roman Emperor 1685 18th century Habsburg Holy Roman Emperor
- Walter Matthau 1920 American actor, comedian and director
- Aaron Ciechanover 1947 Israeli physician and biochemist, Nobel Laureate
- Mia Mottley 1965 Prime minister of Barbados since 2018
- Liaquat Ali Khan 1895 1st Prime Minister of Pakistan from 1947 to 1951
- Jean-Jacques Annaud 1943 French film director, screenwriter and producer
- Andrus Ansip 1956 Estonian chemist and politician
- Philippe Noiret 1930 French actor
- Youssou N’Dour 1959 Senegalese singer, composer and politician
- Ip Man 1893 Hong Kong martial artist
- Paul Dukas 1865 French composer
- Zach Galifianakis 1969 American actor and comedian
- Mirko Vučinić 1983 Montenegrin footballer
- William Boeing 1881 American aviation pioneer
- Klaus Wowereit 1953 German politician
- Haris Silajdžić 1945 Bosnian politician and academic
- Mason Greenwood 2001 English association football player
- André Rieu 1949 Dutch violinist and conductor
- Duncan Edwards 1936 English footballer
- Sergey Aksakov 1791 Russian writer
- George Peppard 1928 American actor
- Jerome Bruner 1915 American psychologist and scholar
- Otto Robert Frisch 1904 Austrian-born British nuclear physicist
- Chulpan Khamatova 1975 Russian actress
- Randy Quaid 1950 American actor
- Júlio Baptista 1981 Brazilian footballer
- You Xie 1958 Chinese-German politician and writer
- Trézéguet 1994 Egyptian association football player
- Marcus Stephen 1969 Nauruan sportperson and politician
- James Whitmore 1921 American actor
- Satoshi Otomo 1981 Filipino association football player
- Anthony Lopez 1990 Portuguese footballer
- Emerald Fennell 1985 English actress, filmmaker and writer
- William Beckford 1760 English slaver, art collector, and novelist
- Leila Hatami 1972 Iranian actress
- Abubakar Tafawa Balewa 1912 Nigerian politician
- William Rehnquist 1924 Chief justice of the United States from 1986 to 2005
- Hazal Kaya 1990 Turkish actor
- Rupert Friend 1981 British actor
- Caroline Harrison 1832 First Lady of the United States from 1889 to 1892
- Gina Haspel 1956 American intelligence officer
- Walter Mazzarri 1961 Italian association football player and manager
- Senhit 1979 Italian singer
- Laurence Harvey 1928 Lithuanian-born British actor
- Oleg Yefremov 1927 Soviet and Russian actor and theatre director
- Agustín Canobbio 1998 Uruguayan association football player
- Nat Turner 1800 African-American slave rebellion leader
- Stephen Collins 1947 American actor
- Cariba Heine 1988 Australian actress
- Michaela Coel 1987 British actress and screenwriter
- Saeid Ezzatollahi 1996 Iranian footballer
- Grete Waitz 1953 Norwegian marathon runner and former world record holder
- Eliseu 1983 Portuguese association football player
- Matthew Daddario 1987 American actor
- Gus Kenworthy 1991 American and British freestyle skier and actor
- Dwight Phillips 1977 American long jumper
- Nebojša Radmanović 1949 Bosnian Serb politician
- Hamza Choudhury 1997 English-Bangladeshi association football player
- Jan Kirchhoff 1990 German association football player
- Giuseppe Bertello 1942 Italian Catholic prelate and Cardinal
- Gibran Rakabuming Raka 1987 14th vice-president of Indonesia (since 2024)
- Esai Morales 1962 American actor
- Ewa Kłobukowska 1946 Polish sprinter
- Vitalina Batsarashkina 1996 Russian sports shooter
- Sarah Drew 1980 American actress
- Daniel J. Boorstin 1914 American historian
- Stanley Holloway 1890 British actor, singer and comedian
- Charles Cros 1842 French poet and inventor
- Priah Ferguson 2006 American actress
- Wout Poels 1987 Dutch racing cyclist
- Günter Wallraff 1942 German writer and journalist
- Boris Morukov 1950 Russian cosmonaut and physician
- Danika Yarosh 1998 American actress
- Eric Boe 1964 American astronaut
- Curtis Axel 1979 American professional wrestler
- Patrick D'Rozario 1943 Catholic cardinal
- Gilberto Martínez 1979 Costa Rican footballer
- Timothée Kolodziejczak 1991 French association football player
- Jonathan Milan 2000 Italian cyclist
- Lucio Corsi 1993 Italian singer-songwriter
- Ricardo Vaz Tê 1986 Portuguese association football player
- Jean-Pierre Jabouille 1942 Racecar driver from France
Names link to each person's Wikidata entry, the source of the date. Data: Wikidata (CC0), refreshed October 30, 2026. People born on October 1 share the 1st of October as a birthday; check the Famous Birthdays Finder for any other date.