Famous birthdays
Famous people born on October 15
Short answer
Well-known people born on October 15 include Friedrich Nietzsche (1844), Michel Foucault (1926), Mesut Özil (1988) and A. P. J. Abdul Kalam (1931). Our list below has 107 people for this date, most widely covered first.
This list covers people whose Wikidata record gives October 15 as their exact birth date and who have articles in at least 28 Wikipedia language editions. The earliest birth year here is 1608 (Evangelista Torricelli) and the most recent is 2005 (Christian, Crown Prince of Denmark). The most common fields on this date: football, writer, politician.
Who was born on October 15?
- Friedrich Nietzsche 1844 German philosopher
- Michel Foucault 1926 French philosopher
- Mesut Özil 1988 Turkish-German association football player
- A. P. J. Abdul Kalam 1931 Indian scientist, president and statesman
- Evangelista Torricelli 1608 Italian physicist and mathematician
- Mario Puzo 1920 American author, screenwriter, and journalist
- Didier Deschamps 1968 French association football player and coach
- John Kenneth Galbraith 1908 Canadian-American economist and diplomat
- Denys Shmyhal 1975 Ukrainian politician, former Prime Minister of Ukraine
- Sali Berisha 1944 Albanian politician
- Mohammed Zahir Shah 1914 King of Afghanistan
- David Trezeguet 1977 French footballer
- P. G. Wodehouse 1881 English author
- Frederick William IV of Prussia 1795 King of Prussia
- Penny Marshall 1943 American actress, director and producer
- David Trimble 1944 First Minister of Northern Ireland from 1998 to 2002
- Asaph Hall 1829 American astronomer
- Sarah Ferguson 1959 British writer, charity patron, public speaker, film producer and television…
- Fela Kuti 1938 Nigerian musician and activist
- Niko Kovač 1971 Croatian footballer and manager
- Milorad Pavić 1929 Serbian writer
- Vahid Halilhodžić 1952 Bosnian association football player and manager
- Andy Cole 1971 English footballer
- Peter C. Doherty 1940 Australian immunologist
- Mira Nair 1957 Indian-American filmmaker
- Hiroshige Yanagimoto 1972 Japanese association football player
- Jane Darwell 1879 American actress
- Carol II of Romania 1893 King of Romania from 1930 to 1940
- Marie Stopes 1880 British birth control campaigner and paleontologist
- C. P. Snow 1905 English novelist and physical chemist
- Ram Chandra Poudel 1944 President of Nepal since 2023
- Francisco Largo Caballero 1869 Spanish politician
- Sandra Kim 1972 Belgian singer
- Anthony Joshua 1989 British boxer
- James Tissot 1836 French painter and illustrator
- Vítor Baía 1969 Portuguese footballer
- Nolito 1986 Spanish association football player
- Lee Iacocca 1924 American businessman
- Edith Bolling Galt Wilson 1872 First Lady of the United States from 1915 to 1921
- Paul Reynaud 1878 French politician and lawyer
- Christian, Crown Prince of Denmark 2005 Eldest child of Frederik X of Denmark and Queen Mary
- Amrullah Saleh 1972 First Vice President of Afghanistan from 2020 to 2021
- Hassan Gouled Aptidon 1916 President of Djibouti
- Dominic West 1969 British actor
- Paul Robinson 1979 English association football player
- Bobby Morrow 1935 American sprinter
- Gustavo Zapata 1967 Argentine association football player
- Andreas Ivanschitz 1983 Austrian footballer
- Bruno Senna 1983 Brazilian racing driver
- Louis-Eugène Cavaignac 1802 French general and politician
- Ncuti Gatwa 1992 Rwandan-Scottish actor
- Mizuho Sakaguchi 1987 Japanese association football player
- Māris Verpakovskis 1979 Latvian footballer
- Bailee Madison 1999 American actress
- Wilhelm Miklas 1872 Austrian politician; President
- Isabella Bird 1831 British traveler, writer, photographer and naturalist
- Angelo Schiavio 1905 Italian footballer
- Boualem Sansal 1944 Algerian and French writer
- Tom Boonen 1980 Belgian road bicycle racer
- Cilia Flores 1956 First Lady of Venezuela from 2013 to 2026
- Kay Ivey 1944 Governor of Alabama since 2017
- Aleksey Koltsov 1809 Russian poet
- Tito Jackson 1953 American musician
- Henri Verneuil 1920 French-Armenian playwright and filmmaker
- Evan Hunter 1926 American author and screenwriter
- Mervyn LeRoy 1900 American film director and producer
- Elena Stasova 1873 Russian revolutionary, soviet politician
- Stanley Fischer 1943 Israeli-American economist
- Jorge Campos 1966 Mexican footballer
- Nikolay Baskov 1976 Russian singer
- Keyshia Cole 1981 American R&B singer
- Michael Lewis 1960 American writer
- Jessie Ware 1984 British singer
- Günther Oettinger 1953 German politician (CDU)
- Kosta Khetagurov 1859 Ossetian poet
- Arthur M. Schlesinger 1917 American historian, social critic, and public intellectual
- Boško Balaman 1978 Croatian footballer
- Antonio Cañizares Llovera 1945 Spanish Catholic cardinal, Archbishop Emeritus of Valencia, Spain
- Guo Jingjing 1981 Chinese female diver
- Xi Zhongxun 1913 Chinese politician
- Anna Haava 1864 Estonian poet and translator
- Ott Tänak 1987 Estonian rally driver
- Célestin Freinet 1896 French pedagogue
- Vanessa Marcil 1968 American actress
- Akbar Khan 1816 Emir of Afghanistan
- Tito Okello 1914 Former President of Uganda from 29th July 1985 to 26th January 1986.
- Sarah Engels 1992 German singer
- Zoltán Fábri 1917 Hungarian actor, film director
- Roberto Vittori 1964 Italian astronaut
- Carlo Janka 1986 Swiss alpine skier
- Roscoe Tanner 1951 US tennis player
- Paul Walter Hauser 1986 American actor
- Jean Peters 1926 American actress
- Matteo Garrone 1968 Italian film director and screen writer
- Roxane Gay 1974 American writer
- Telesphore Toppo 1939 Catholic cardinal
- Rifa'a at-Tahtawi 1801 Egyptian scholar
- Philippe Leroy 1930 French actor
- Karl Richter 1926 German organist, harpsichordist, and conductor
- FM-2030 1930 Iranian-American transhumanist philosopher and futurist
- Saif Saaeed Shaheen 1982 Qatari-Kenyan long-distance runner
- Pernilla Wiberg 1970 Swedish female alpine skier and businesswoman
- Chris Brown 1978 Bahamian athletics competitor
- Felipe Mattioni 1988 Brazilian footballer
- Sérgio Santos 1975 Brazilian volleyball player
- László Fazekas 1947 Hungarian footballer
- Ben Woodburn 1999 Welsh-English association football player
Names link to each person's Wikidata entry, the source of the date. Data: Wikidata (CC0), refreshed October 30, 2026. People born on October 15 share the 15th of October as a birthday; check the Famous Birthdays Finder for any other date.