List of Famous people born in February

Georg Gottlob Richter was a professor of medicine, philosophy, and philology.

Ludwig Stössel was an actor born in Lockenhaus, now Austria, then Hungary. He was one of many Jewish actors and actresses who were forced to flee Germany when the Nazis came to power in 1933.

James Douglas Ogilby was an Australian ichthyologist and herpetologist.

Walther Süssenguth was a German actor.

Pierre-Joseph Desault was a French anatomist and surgeon.

Benjamin Ruggles was a National Republican and Whig politician from Ohio. He served in the U.S. Senate.

Benjamin Hardin was a United States Representative from Kentucky. Martin Davis Hardin was his cousin. He was born at the Georges Creek settlement on the Monongahela River, Westmoreland County, Pennsylvania and then moved with his parents to Washington County, Kentucky in 1788. Hardin attended the schools of Nelson and Washington Counties, Kentucky before studying law. He was admitted to the bar in 1806 and commenced practice in Elizabethtown and Bardstown, Nelson County, Kentucky and he settled in Bardstown, Kentucky in 1808.