List of Famous people born in February

John Paterson McGowan was a pioneering Hollywood actor and director and occasionally a screenwriter and producer. McGowan remains the only Australian to have been made a life member of the Screen Directors Guild.

James George Tomkins, known professionally as Big Jim Sullivan, was an English musician whose career started in 1958.

Hugo Marie de Vries was a Dutch botanist and one of the first geneticists. He is known chiefly for suggesting the concept of genes, rediscovering the laws of heredity in the 1890s while apparently unaware of Gregor Mendel's work, for introducing the term "mutation", and for developing a mutation theory of evolution.

Pat West was a former fullback in the National Football League. He was drafted in the twenty-eighth round of the 1945 NFL Draft by the Cleveland Rams and would play with the team for three seasons and part of another, including during the franchise's move to Los Angeles, California, before playing the last part of his career with the Green Bay Packers.

Chris Butler is an American cyclist, who last rode for UCI Professional Continental team Caja Rural–Seguros RGA.

Maurizio Marchetto is a former ice speed skater from Italy, who represented his native country in three consecutive Winter Olympics, starting in 1976 in Innsbruck, Austria.