List of Famous people born in February

Riccardo Freda was an Italian film director. He worked in a variety of genres, including sword-and-sandal, horror, giallo and spy films.

Luisa Rivelli is an Italian film actress. She appeared in 50 films between 1951 and 1994.

Mariia Sergeyevna Surovshchikova-Petipa was prima ballerina to the St. Petersburg Imperial Theatres and wife of the noted choreographer Marius Petipa.

Herwig Franz Schopper, is an experimental physicist and was the director general of CERN from 1981 to 1988.

Maurice Maindron was a French entomologist.

Sílvio Romero de Lemos Meira is a Brazilian computer scientist, professor and entrepreneur in the area of software engineering and innovation. Currently, he is an associate professor at the Getulio Vargas Foundation School of Law and emeritus professor at the Centre of Informatics of the Federal University of Pernambuco. Additionally, he also is the chairman of the Porto Digital - the biggest Brazilian tech park - and is member of the board of directors in several companies.

Abraham Haskel Taub was a distinguished American mathematician and physicist, well known for his important contributions to the early development of general relativity, as well as differential geometry and differential equations.