List of Famous people born in February

George Fitzgerald Smoot III is an American astrophysicist, cosmologist, Nobel laureate, and one of two contestants to win the US$1 million prize on Are You Smarter than a 5th Grader?. He won the Nobel Prize in Physics in 2006 for his work on the Cosmic Background Explorer with John C. Mather that led to the "discovery of the black body form and anisotropy of the cosmic microwave background radiation".

Vittoria Accoramboni was an Italian noblewoman. Her life became the basis for John Webster's play The White Devil and several novels.

Alexander Andreevich Samarskii was a Soviet and Russian mathematician and academician, specializing in mathematical physics, applied mathematics, numerical analysis, mathematical modeling, finite difference methods.

Ilaria Spada, is an Italian actress and showgirl, born in the Pontine Marshes district to an Italian father and a Sicilian-Tunisian mother.

Louise Dorothy Ritter is an American former track and field athlete who won the gold medal in the high jump at the 1988 Olympic Games.