List of Famous people born in February

Peter Taylor was an English film editor with more than 30 film credits. Perhaps his best remembered contribution is the editing of the 1957 film The Bridge on the River Kwai.

Reiner Salzer is a German chemist and university teacher of Analytical Chemistry at the TU Dresden.

Valery Ilyich Rozhdestvensky was a Soviet cosmonaut.

Peter Röhlinger is a German politician and member of the Free Democratic Party. From 1990 to 2006 he was the mayor (Oberbürgermeister) of the city of Jena and from 2009 to 2013 he was an elected representative in the Bundestag.

Maxwell Richard Bennett is an Australian neuroscientist specializing in the function of synapses.

Peter Salovey is an American social psychologist and current President of Yale University. He previously served as Yale's Provost, Dean of Yale Graduate School of Arts and Sciences, and Dean of Yale College. Salovey is one of the early pioneers and leading researchers in emotional intelligence.

Maurice Richlin was an American screenwriter. He received two Academy Award for Best Original Screenplay nominations for Pillow Talk and Operation Petticoat in the same year. For the first of which he won along with Russell Rouse, Stanley Shapiro and Clarence Greene.