List of Famous people born in February
Kamal Deen Sulemana
Kamaldeen Sulemana, simply known as Kamaldeen, is a Ghanaian professional footballer who plays as a winger for Ligue 1 club Stade Rennais and the Ghana national team.
Richard Glossip
Richard Eugene Glossip is an American prisoner currently on death row at Oklahoma State Penitentiary after being convicted of commissioning the 1997 murder of Barry Van Treese. Justin Sneed, the man who murdered Van Treese, agreed to plead guilty in exchange for testifying against Glossip, and received a sentence of life without parole. Glossip is the recipient of international attention due to the unusual nature of his conviction, for which there is little or no additional corroborating evidence.
Dean Smith
Dean Edwards Smith was an American men's college basketball head coach. Called a "coaching legend" by the Basketball Hall of Fame, he coached for 36 years at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. Smith coached from 1961 to 1997 and retired with 879 victories, which was the NCAA Division I men's basketball record at that time. Smith had the ninth-highest winning percentage of any men's college basketball coach (77.6%). During his tenure as head coach, North Carolina won two national championships and appeared in 11 Final Fours. Smith played college basketball at the University of Kansas, where he won a national championship in 1952 playing for Hall of fame coach Phog Allen.
Melani Olivares
Melani Olivares Mora is a Spanish actress.
Karl May
Karl Friedrich May was a German author. He is best known for his 19-th century novels of fictitious travels and adventures, set in the American Old West with Winnetou and Old Shatterhand as main protagonists and in the Orient and Middle East with fictional characters Kara Ben Nemsi and Hadschi Halef Omar.
Tom Courtenay
Sir Thomas Daniel Courtenay is an English actor of stage and screen. After studying at the Royal Academy of Dramatic Art, Courtenay achieved prominence in the 1960s with a series of acclaimed film roles, including The Loneliness of the Long Distance Runner (1962), for which he received the BAFTA Award for Most Promising Newcomer to Leading Film Roles, and Doctor Zhivago (1965), for which he received an Academy Award nomination for Best Supporting Actor. Other notable film roles during this period include Billy Liar (1963), King and Country (1964), for which he was awarded the Volpi Cup for Best Actor at the Venice Film Festival, King Rat (1965), and The Night of the Generals.
Ayaka Nishiwaki
Ayaka Nishiwaki , nicknamed A~chan , is a Japanese singer and dancer. She is known as one of the members of the Japanese electropop group Perfume.
François Lecointre
François Gérard Marie Lecointre is a French army general who has served as Chief of the Defence Staff since 20 July 2017. As a captain, with Lieutenant Bruno Heluin as the company commanding officer, he was one of the two heroes of the Battle of Vrbanja Bridge in 1995, the last fixed bayonet charge combat of the French Armed Forces.
Kelly Slater
Robert Kelly Slater is an American professional surfer, best known for his unprecedented 11 world surfing championship wins. He is widely regarded as the greatest professional surfer of all time.
Valeria Mazza
Valeria Raquel Mazza is an Argentine supermodel and businesswoman. Mazza rose to prominence in the 1990s and became a household name after appearing on the cover of the Sports Illustrated Swimsuit Issue of 1996 alongside Tyra Banks. Mazza worked for fashion designers such as Gianni Versace and Roberto Cavalli.