List of Famous people born in February
Rowley Hill
Rowley Hill, DD was an Anglican clergyman who served in the Church of England as the Bishop of Sodor and Man from 1877 to 1887.
Nicolás Cabrera
Nicolás Cabrera (1913–1989), was a Spanish physicist who did important work on the theories of crystal growth and the oxidisation of metals. He was the son of another famous Spanish physicist Blas Cabrera and the father of American Physicist Blas Cabrera Navarro. He spent many years in exile during the Francoist State. He was Professor of the Department of physics in the University of Virginia, where he worked from 1952. He became known for his interests in engineering and material science. He founded the physics department and was Professor at the Autonomous University of Madrid (UAM), from 1971. He is considered to have given an impulse to the study of physics in Spain from the time of his return. For a time Javier Solana, whom he met at the University of Virginia, was his assistant in Madrid. Solana has described him as being a brilliant man but badly organised. The Nicolás Cabrera Institute, founded in 1989 in the UAM, is named after him.
Elizabeth Harrison Walker
Elizabeth Harrison Walker was the fourth and final child of U.S. President Benjamin Harrison, and the only child of his second wife, Mary Scott Lord Dimmick.
Robert Meade
Jacques Monod
Jacques Lucien Monod was a French biochemist who won the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine in 1965, sharing it with François Jacob and André Lwoff "for their discoveries concerning genetic control of enzyme and virus synthesis".
Lady Isabel Hamilton
Svetlana Gerasimenko
Svetlana Ivanovna Gerasimenko is a Soviet and Tajikistani astronomer of Ukrainian origin and discoverer of comet 67P/Churyumov–Gerasimenko.
Hilary Arthur Reuel Tolkien
Sir Archibald Lyle, 2nd Baronet
Sir Archibald Moir Park Lyle, 2nd Baronet, was a Scottish first-class cricketer, British Army officer and ship owner.
Orhun Ene
Orhun Ene is a Turkish former professional basketball player and coach. During his playing career, at a height of 1.88 m (6'2") tall, he played at the point guard position. He is the head coach of the Turkish national team.