List of Famous people born in February
Otto Modersohn
Friedrich Wilhelm Otto Modersohn was a German landscape painter. He was a co-founder of the Art Colony at Worpswede.
Nikolay Yeryomenko
Nikolai Nikolaevich Yeremenko Jr. was a Soviet and Russian theater and film actor, film director of Belarusian origin. He was awarded People's Artist of Russia in 1994.
Steve Gohouri
Lohoré Steve Ulrich Gohouri was an Ivorian professional footballer who played as a defender.
Akhtar Raza Khan
Muhammed Akhtar Raza Khan Azhari, also known as Tajushshari'ah or Azhari Miya was an Indian Barelvi Muslim scholar, cleric and mufti. He was a great-grandson of Ahmed Raza Khan who was considered to be a Mujaddid by his followers and founder of the Barelvi movement. He was considered by Barelvi Muslims in India to function as the Grand Mufti of India. He had been ranked 22nd on the list of The 500 Most Influential Muslims in the world, compiled by the Royal Islamic Strategic Studies Centre. He had tens of millions of followers globally.
Alfonso Sastre
Alfonso Sastre was a Spanish playwright, essayist, and critic associated with the Generation of '36 movement. He was an outspoken critic of censorship during the reign of General Francisco Franco. His most noteworthy plays include Death Squad (1953), The Gag (1954), Death Thrust (1960), and Tragicomedy of the Gypsy Celestina (1984).
Charlotta Bass
Charlotta Amanda Spears Bass was an American educator, newspaper publisher-editor, and civil rights activist. She also focused on various other issues such as housing rights, voting rights, and labor rights, as well as police brutality and harassment. Bass is believed to be the first African-American woman to own and operate a newspaper in the United States; she published the California Eagle from 1912 until 1951. In 1952, Bass became the first African-American woman nominated for Vice President, as a candidate of the Progressive Party.
Zach Galligan
Zachary Wolfe Galligan is an American actor, best known for starring as Billy Peltzer in the comedy-horror films Gremlins (1984) and Gremlins 2: The New Batch (1990).
Lou Andreas-Salomé
Lou Andreas-Salomé was a Russian-born psychoanalyst and a well-traveled author, narrator, and essayist from a Russian-German family. Her diverse intellectual interests led to friendships with a broad array of distinguished thinkers, including Friedrich Nietzsche, Sigmund Freud, Paul Rée, and Rainer Maria Rilke.
Christian Giménez
Christian Giménez is an Argentine-born Mexican former professional footballer, former TV game analyst for Fox Deportes, and current manager of Liga de Expansión MX club Cancún FC. He spent most of his career playing for Liga MX clubs Pachuca and Cruz Azul. He is known by his nickname Chaco because he hails from the province of the same name.
Chennamaneni Vidyasagar Rao
Chennamaneni Vidyasagar Rao is an Indian politician from Telangana, associated with Bharatiya Janata Party. He served as Governor of Maharashtra from 2014 to 2019. As a member of the Bharatiya Janata Party, he had served as a Union Minister of State in the Ministry of Home Affairs in Atal Bihari Vajpayee's government from 1999. He was elected to the Lok Sabha in 1998 and 1999 from Karimnagar.