List of Famous people born in February
Jay Lavender
Alisa Drei
Alisa Drei is a Finnish former competitive figure skater. She finished in the top ten at seven European Championships.
Herman Aguinis
Herman Aguinis is a researcher and business professor and author. He is the Avram Tucker Distinguished Scholar, Professor of Management, and Chair of the Department of Management at the George Washington University School of Business in Washington, D.C. He has been ranked among the top 100 most influential economics and business researchers in the world in 2020, 2019, and 2018. He has been elected for the presidency track of the Academy of Management (AOM), served as AOM Vice President and Program Chair for the 2020 virtual conference including about 7,200 participants from 90 countries, and is serving as President Elect during 2020-2021. Prior to moving to Washington D.C. in 2016, he was the John F. Mee Chair of Management and the Founding Director of the Institute for Global Organizational Effectiveness in the Kelley School of Business at Indiana University.
Clara Nistad
Clara Nistad is a Swedish badminton player. In 2015, she won the Polish and Finnish International tournaments in the women's doubles event partnered with Emma Wengberg. In 2017, she and Wengberg won the women's doubles title at the Swedish International Series tournament.
Michael Wilton
Michael F. Wilton also known as The Whip, for how fast his fingers "whip" around the guitar fretboard, heavy metal and hard rock guitarist and songwriter, best known for being a lead and rhythm guitarist and songwriter in the progressive metal band Queensrÿche, which he co-founded in 1982.
Christian Frommert
John St Aubyn, 4th Baron Saint Levan
John Francis Arthur St Aubyn, 4th Baron St Levan DSC OBE DL was a British hereditary peer, decorated Royal Navy officer, solicitor, and heritage figure. From 1978 to 2003, he was custodian of the family seat of St Michael's Mount in Cornwall.
Greenleaf Whittier Pickard
Greenleaf Whittier Pickard was a United States radio pioneer. Pickard was a researcher in the early days of wireless. While not the earliest discoverer of the rectifying properties of contact between certain solid materials, he was largely responsible and most famous for the development of the crystal detector, the earliest type of diode detector. The crystal detector was the central component in many early radio receivers from around 1906 until about 1920. Pickard also experimented with antennas, radio wave propagation and noise suppression. On August 30, 1906 he filed a patent for a silicon crystal detector, which was granted on November 20, 1906. On June 10, 1907 he filed a patent for a Magnetic Aerial which was granted on January 21, 1908. Pickard's loop antenna had directional properties that could be used to reduce interference to the intended wireless communications. On June 21, 1911 he filed a patent on a crystal detector incorporating a springy low inertia wire of about 24 gauge formed with a loop or helix and pointed to make contact with the crystal. Crystal detectors incorporating this construction would become the most widely used and popularly known by the term cat whisker detector. This patent was granted on July 21, 1914. Greenleaf Whittier Pickard was named after his great-uncle, the American Quaker John Greenleaf Whittier (1807-1892). Pickard was president of the Institute of Radio Engineers in 1913.