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Famous people born on October 23

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Well-known people born on October 23 include Pelé (1940), Paul Kagame (1957), "Weird Al" Yankovic (1959) and Ryan Reynolds (1976). Our list below has 90 people for this date, most widely covered first.

This list covers people whose Wikidata record gives October 23 as their exact birth date and who have articles in at least 28 Wikipedia language editions. The earliest birth year here is 1636 (Hedvig Eleonora of Holstein-Gottorp) and the most recent is 2000 (Zaira Wasim). The most common fields on this date: football, actress, writer.

Who was born on October 23?

  1. Pelé 1940 Brazilian footballer
  2. Paul Kagame 1957 President of Rwanda since 2000
  3. "Weird Al" Yankovic 1959 American comedy musician
  4. Ryan Reynolds 1976 Canadian-American actor
  5. Masiela Lusha 1985 Albanian American actress and author
  6. Michael Crichton 1942 American author, screenwriter, film director
  7. Ang Lee 1954 Taiwanese film director, screenwriter and producer
  8. Felix Bloch 1905 Swiss physicist
  9. Ilya Frank 1908 Soviet physicist
  10. Álvaro Morata 1992 Spanish footballer
  11. Gilbert N. Lewis 1875 American physical chemist
  12. Gianni Rodari 1920 Italian writer and journalist
  13. Sam Raimi 1959 American filmmaker
  14. Zhu Rongji 1928 5th Premier of the People's Republic of China from 1998 to 2003
  15. Margaret Qualley 1994 American actress and model
  16. Johnny Carson 1925 American talk show host and comedian
  17. Fabinho 1993 Brazilian association football player
  18. Prabhas 1979 Indian film actor
  19. Leszek Kołakowski 1927 Philosopher, historian of ideas
  20. Aravind Adiga 1974 Indian journalist and author
  21. Andriy Yarmolenko 1989 Ukrainian association football player
  22. Robert Trujillo 1964 American bass guitarist
  23. Adlai Stevenson I 1835 American politician; Vice President of the United States from 1893 to 1897
  24. Fatmir Sejdiu 1951 President of Kosovo
  25. Bohuslav Sobotka 1971 Czech politician
  26. Andoni Zubizarreta 1961 Spanish footballer
  27. Emil Forsberg 1991 Swedish association football player
  28. Malaika Arora 1975 Indian actress
  29. Randy Pausch 1960 American professor of computer science, human-computer interaction and design
  30. Adalbert Stifter 1805 Austrian painter, pacifist and writer
  31. Asqar Mamin 1965 Former Prime Minister of Kazakhstan
  32. Kazimierz Deyna 1947 Polish footballer
  33. Ezri Konsa 1997 English footballer
  34. Saionji Kinmochi 1849 Japanese politician
  35. Pierre Larousse 1817 French grammarian, lexicographer and encyclopaedist
  36. Abdel Aziz al-Rantissi 1947 Palestinian political leader
  37. Izabel Goulart 1984 Brazilian model
  38. Gertrude Ederle 1905 American swimmer
  39. Milan Borjan 1987 Canadian association football player
  40. Igor Smirnov 1941 First President of Transnistria
  41. Tomoko Muramatsu 1994 Japanese association football player
  42. Amandla Stenberg 1998 American actress
  43. Diana Dors 1931 English actress
  44. Emmanuel de Grouchy, Marquis de Grouchy 1766 French general and marshal
  45. Albert Lortzing 1801 German opera composer
  46. Briana Evigan 1986 American actress
  47. Grant Imahara 1970 American electrical engineer, roboticist, television host, and actor
  48. Keiren Westwood 1984 Irish footballer
  49. Mako Komuro 1991 Japanese princess; eldest child of Fumihito, Crown Prince of Japan, and Kiko, Crown…
  50. Aleksandar Luković 1982 Serbian footballer
  51. Simon Davies 1979 Welsh former association football player
  52. Archie Thompson 1978 Australian association football player
  53. Henri Milne-Edwards 1800 French zoologist
  54. Rashidi Yekini 1963 Nigerian footballer
  55. Hedvig Eleonora of Holstein-Gottorp 1636 Queen of Sweden
  56. Anita Roddick 1942 British business woman, founder of The Body Shop
  57. Ange-Jacques Gabriel 1698 French architect
  58. Bhairon Singh Shekhawat 1923 Vice President of India from 2002 to 2007
  59. Jessica Stroup 1986 American actress
  60. Jean Acker 1893 American actress
  61. Zaira Wasim 2000 Former Indian actress
  62. Ludwig Leichhardt 1813 German explorer of Australia
  63. Mohammed Abdellaoue 1985 Norwegian footballer
  64. Manshuk Mametova 1922 Soviet Kazakh machine gunner and Heroine of the Soviet Union
  65. Dwight Yoakam 1956 American country singer-songwriter, actor, and film director
  66. Thomas Kaminski 1992 Belgian association football player
  67. Koji Kumagai 1975 Japanese association football player
  68. Adam Nawałka 1957 Polish association football manager
  69. Dmitry Pavlov 1897 Soviet general
  70. Manos Hatzidakis 1925 Greek composer, pianist and conductor
  71. Kate del Castillo 1972 Mexican-American actress
  72. Yen Chia-kan 1905 President of Taiwan (ROC) from 1975 to 1978
  73. Antjie Krog 1952 South African writer and academic
  74. Seo In-guk 1987 South Korean actor and singer
  75. Philip Kaufman 1936 American film director, screenwriter and film producer
  76. Dianne Reeves 1956 American jazz singer
  77. Miguel 1985 American singer-songwriter and record producer
  78. Sander Westerveld 1974 Dutch association football player
  79. Wilhelm Leibl 1844 German artist
  80. Kittur Chennamma 1778 Indian freedom fighter, warrior queen
  81. Hsu Shih-chang 1855 President of the Republic of China
  82. Agnes Tirop 1995 Κenyan Olympic long-distance runner
  83. Nia Ali 1988 American athletics competitor
  84. Charly García 1951 Argentine singer-songwriter and musician
  85. Fouad Twal 1940 Catholic patriarch
  86. Axel Ehnström 1990 Finnish singer-songwriter
  87. Édouard Branly 1844 French physicist
  88. Dezső Gyarmati 1927 Hungarian water polo player and coach
  89. Yoel Bárcenas 1993 Panamanian association football player
  90. Manuela Velasco 1975 Spanish actress

Names link to each person's Wikidata entry, the source of the date. Data: Wikidata (CC0), refreshed October 30, 2026. People born on October 23 share the 23rd of October as a birthday; check the Famous Birthdays Finder for any other date.

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