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Famous people born on October 8
Short answer
Well-known people born on October 8 include Sigourney Weaver (1949), Ursula von der Leyen (1958), Matt Damon (1970) and Juan Perón (1895). Our list below has 100 people for this date, most widely covered first.
This list covers people whose Wikidata record gives October 8 as their exact birth date and who have articles in at least 28 Wikipedia language editions. The earliest birth year here is 1789 (William Swainson) and the most recent is 2003 (Ángela Aguilar). The most common fields on this date: football, actor, writer.
Who was born on October 8?
- Sigourney Weaver 1949 American actress
- Ursula von der Leyen 1958 President of the European Commission since 2019
- Matt Damon 1970 American actor
- Juan Perón 1895 President of Argentina (1946–55, 1973–74)
- Frank Herbert 1920 American writer
- Sadiq Khan 1970 Mayor of London since 2016
- Jesse Jackson 1941 American Baptist minister, activist, civil rights leader, politician, and founder of…
- Otto Heinrich Warburg 1883 German physiologist, medical doctor and Nobel laureate
- Zog I of Albania 1895 Albanian prime minister, president and king (r.1922-1939)
- Garbiñe Muguruza 1993 Spanish-Venezuelan tennis player
- César Milstein 1927 Argentine biochemist
- Jens Christian Skou 1918 Danish chemist
- Claude Jade 1948 French actress
- Komitas 1869 Ottoman Armenian priest, musicologist, composer and vardapet
- Chevy Chase 1943 American actor, comedian and writer
- R. L. Stine 1943 American novelist
- Zoran Zaev 1974 Former prime minister of North Macedonia
- Henry Louis Le Châtelier 1850 French chemist
- Kiichi Miyazawa 1919 78th Prime Minister of Japan
- Rodney Robert Porter 1917 English biochemist and Nobel laureate
- Nguyễn Minh Triết 1942 Sixth President of Vietnam
- Kristanna Loken 1979 American actress
- Ejnar Hertzsprung 1873 Danish astronomer and chemist
- Zvonimir Boban 1968 Croatian footballer
- Paul Hogan 1939 Australian actor and comedian
- David Yates 1963 English filmmaker
- Walter von Reichenau 1884 German field marshal
- Antonio Cabrini 1957 Italian footballer and manager
- Oleksandra Matviichuk 1983 Ukrainian human rights activist
- Nils Liedholm 1922 Swedish footballer and manager
- Rouben Mamoulian 1897 American film and theatre director
- The Miz 1980 American professional wrestler, actor and television personality
- Chen Duxiu 1879 Chinese politician and co-founder of the Chinese Communist Party
- Dennis Kucinich 1946 American politician
- Barbara Palvin 1993 Hungarian model
- Ola Aina 1996 Nigerian footballer
- Edward Zwick 1952 American filmmaker and producer
- Sejad Salihović 1984 Bosnian association football player
- Harriet Taylor Mill 1807 British philosopher
- Tōru Takemitsu 1930 Japanese composer and writer on aesthetics and music theory
- Hanan Ashrawi 1946 Palestinian legislator, activist, and scholar
- Armand Traoré 1989 Senegalese-French footballer
- John Hay 1838 American statesman
- Zheng Qinwen 2002 Chinese tennis player
- Emily Procter 1968 American actress
- Molly Quinn 1993 American actress
- Steven Bergwijn 1997 Dutch association football player
- Baldwin Spencer 1948 Prime Minister of Antigua and Barbuda
- Angus T. Jones 1993 American actor
- Jeremy Davies 1969 American actor
- Johnny Ramone 1948 American guitarist
- Louise Hay 1926 American writer
- Luca Hänni 1994 Swiss singer
- Ben White 1997 English association football player
- Koji Murofushi 1974 Japanese hammer thrower, university professor (physical education), commissioner of…
- Leonid Kuravlyov 1936 Soviet and Russian actor
- Marco Odermatt 1997 Swiss alpine skier
- Philippe Thys 1889 Belgian cyclist; three-time champion of the Tour de France
- Annemiek van Vleuten 1982 Dutch cyclist
- Louis Vierne 1870 French organist and composer
- Friedrich Fromm 1888 German general
- Michael Dudikoff 1954 American actor and martial artist
- Matt Biondi 1965 American swimmer
- Khải Định 1885 Annamese emperor
- Alistair Johnston 1998 Canadian soccer player
- William Swainson 1789 English naturalist and artist
- Gauri Khan 1970 Indian film producer and fashion designer
- Simone Bolelli 1985 Italian tennis player
- Mark Oliphant 1901 Nuclear physicist, Governor of South Australia
- Eddie Rickenbacker 1890 United States Army Medal of Honor recipient
- Ray Reardon 1932 Welsh snooker player
- Janice E. Voss 1956 American engineer and NASA astronaut
- Sara Takanashi 1996 Japanese ski jumper
- Lucas Alario 1992 Argentinian association football player
- Fred Stolle 1938 Australian tennis player
- Felipe Gutiérrez 1990 Chilean footballer
- Jean-Jacques Beineix 1946 French film director, film producer and screenwriter
- István Bethlen 1874 Hungarian politician
- Josh Kerr 1997 Scottish runner, record holder
- Randa Kassis 1970 Syrian politician leader
- Ángela Aguilar 2003 American-Mexican singer
- Laurence Doherty 1875 English tennis player
- Vincenzo Peruggia 1881 Italian thief
- Kristine Bonnevie 1872 Norwegian biologist and Norway's first female professor
- Rashid Nurgaliev 1956 Russian military officer and politician
- Đorđe Petrović 1999 Serbian associstion football player
- Yulian Semyonov 1931 Soviet writer
- Terry Balsamo 1972 American guitarist
- Reese Hoffa 1977 American shot putter
- Pierre De Geyter 1848 Belgian composer
- Percy Hynes White 2001 Canadian actor
- Ian Hart 1964 English actor
- Tom Price 1954 Former United States Secretary of Health and Human Services; former Congressman of Georgia
- Elvīra Ozoliņa 1939 Soviet javelin thrower
- Terry Gou 1950 Founder and former Chief Executive Officer of Foxconn
- Kobi Marimi 1991 Israeli singer; Israel representative to Eurovision 2019
- Kikunae Ikeda 1864 Japanese chemist
- Martin Henderson 1974 New Zealand actor
- Camilla Herrem 1986 Norwegian handball player
- Alberto Undiano Mallenco 1973 Spanish football referee
Names link to each person's Wikidata entry, the source of the date. Data: Wikidata (CC0), refreshed October 30, 2026. People born on October 8 share the 8th of October as a birthday; check the Famous Birthdays Finder for any other date.