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Famous people born on October 2

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Well-known people born on October 2 include Mahatma Gandhi (1869), Graham Greene (1904), Sting (1951) and Groucho Marx (1890). Our list below has 92 people for this date, most widely covered first.

This list covers people whose Wikidata record gives October 2 as their exact birth date and who have articles in at least 28 Wikipedia language editions. The earliest birth year here is 1754 (Louis de Bonald) and the most recent is 2011 (Licypriya Kangujam). The most common fields on this date: football, actress, writer.

Who was born on October 2?

  1. Mahatma Gandhi 1869 Indian independence activist
  2. Graham Greene 1904 British writer, playwright and literary critic
  3. Sting 1951 British musician
  4. Groucho Marx 1890 American comedian
  5. William Ramsay 1852 Scottish chemist
  6. Ferdinand Foch 1851 French marchal and military theorist
  7. Maria Ressa 1963 Filipino journalist
  8. Alisson Becker 1992 Brazilian association football player
  9. Lal Bahadur Shastri 1904 Prime Minister of India
  10. Roberto Firmino 1991 Brazilian association football player
  11. Christian de Duve 1917 Belgian biochemist, cytologist
  12. Cordell Hull 1871 American politician, U.S. Secretary of State from 1933 to 1944
  13. Alexander Todd 1907 British biochemist and Nobel laureate
  14. Marion Bartoli 1984 French tennis player
  15. Ayumi Hamasaki 1978 Japanese singer, songwriter, and actress
  16. John Gurdon 1933 British developmental biologist
  17. Omar Sívori 1935 Italian-Argentine footballer
  18. Wallace Stevens 1879 American poet
  19. Jeff Bennett 1962 American voice actor
  20. Edward Burnett Tylor 1832 English anthropologist
  21. Jana Novotná 1968 Czech tennis player
  22. Annie Leibovitz 1949 American photographer
  23. Michy Batshuayi 1993 Belgian association football player (1993)
  24. Ardem Patapoutian 1967 Molecular biologist, neuroscientist, and Nobel laureate 2021
  25. Lorraine Bracco 1954 American actress
  26. Ernest Bai Koroma 1953 Sierra Leonean President
  27. Verka Serduchka 1973 Ukrainian artist, entertainer, singer-songwriter, and actor.
  28. Boris Shaposhnikov 1882 Marshal of the Soviet Union
  29. Camilla Belle 1986 American actress
  30. Thomas Muster 1967 Austrian tennis player
  31. Louis de Bonald 1754 French philosopher
  32. Romina Power 1951 American singer and actress
  33. Tammy Abraham 1997 English association football player
  34. Nilo Peçanha 1867 President of Brazil
  35. Don McLean 1945 American singer-songwriter
  36. Miho Fukumoto 1983 Japanese association football player
  37. Sho Sasaki 1989 Japanese association football player
  38. Kiko Casilla 1986 Spanish association football player
  39. Víctor Paz Estenssoro 1907 45th President of Bolivia
  40. Alice Walton 1949 American heiress to the fortune of Wal-Mart Stores, Inc.
  41. Luis Fernandez 1959 French international footballer and manager
  42. Rie Yamaki 1975 Japanese association football player
  43. Donna Karan 1948 American fashion designer
  44. Vernor Vinge 1944 American mathematician, computer scientist, and science fiction writer
  45. Patrick Geddes 1854 British biologist, botanist and town planner
  46. Tyson Chandler 1982 American basketball player
  47. Asha Parekh 1942 Indian actress
  48. Ayyoub Bouaddi 2007 Moroccan-French association football player
  49. Ciprian Marica 1985 Romanian association football player
  50. Paul Van Himst 1943 Belgian footballer and manager
  51. Licypriya Kangujam 2011 Indian environmental activist
  52. Charles Savarin 1943 President of Dominica
  53. Samantha Barks 1990 British actress
  54. Lasha Talakhadze 1993 Georgian weightlifter
  55. Frankie Fredericks 1967 Namibian track and field sprinter
  56. Maribel Verdú 1970 Spanish actress
  57. Martin Edward Hellman 1945 American cryptologist
  58. Leopold Figl 1902 Austrian politician, minister, chancellor
  59. Geert Hofstede 1928 Dutch psychologist
  60. Yokozuna 1966 American professional wrestler
  61. Trevor Brooking 1948 English association football player
  62. Lovlina Borgohain 1997 Indian boxer
  63. Ivan Zaytsev 1988 Italian volleyball player
  64. Proof 1973 American rapper
  65. Tiffany 1971 American singer
  66. Mix Diskerud 1990 American soccer player
  67. Karl von Terzaghi 1883 Austrian geotechnical engineer known as the "father of soil mechanics"
  68. Mike Rutherford 1950 British guitarist and bassist
  69. A. E. Waite 1857 British occultist mystic, poet and writer
  70. Alice Prin 1901 French painter
  71. Jisaburō Ozawa 1886 Japanese admiral
  72. Joe Sacco 1960 Maltese-American cartoonist and journalist; pioneer of the Non-Fiction Graphic Novel…
  73. Jim Root 1971 American guitarist
  74. Luke Wilkshire 1981 Australian association football player
  75. Joe Ingles 1987 Australian basketball player
  76. Matt Hancock 1978 British politician
  77. Bjarke Ingels 1974 Danish architect (b.1974)
  78. Tilly Fleischer 1911 German javelin thrower
  79. Ștefan Kovács 1920 Romanian association football player
  80. Didier Défago 1977 Swiss alpine skier
  81. Eldin Jakupović 1984 Swiss footballer
  82. Jack Collison 1988 Welsh footballer
  83. Aldo Olivieri 1910 Italian footballer and manager
  84. Arta Dobroshi 1979 Kosovar-Albanian actress
  85. S1mple 1997 Ukrainian electronic sports player
  86. Charles Floquet 1828 French politician
  87. Hans Thoma 1839 German painter and graphic artist
  88. Wolfhart Pannenberg 1928 German theologian
  89. Stephanie Okereke 1982 Nigerian actress and singer
  90. Carlos Bonet 1977 Paraguayan footballer
  91. Yury Glazkov 1939 Soviet cosmonaut
  92. Sonthi Boonyaratglin 1946 Thai military leader and politician

Names link to each person's Wikidata entry, the source of the date. Data: Wikidata (CC0), refreshed October 30, 2026. People born on October 2 share the 2nd of October as a birthday; check the Famous Birthdays Finder for any other date.

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