List of Famous people born in February
Catherine Whitaker
Catherine Ann Whitaker is a British sports reporter, presenter and commentator for both television and radio, who has covered tennis and other sports for Eurosport, Amazon Prime Video UK, BBC Radio 5 Live, BeIn Sports, Perform and IMG Media. She is also co-presenter of The Tennis Podcast, a weekly podcast launched in 2012.
Fanny Kaplan
Fanny Efimovna Kaplan was a Russian-Jewish woman, Socialist-Revolutionary, and early Soviet dissident who was convicted of attempting to assassinate Vladimir Lenin and executed by the Cheka in 1918.
Jenny Lumet
Jenny Lumet is an American actress and screenwriter. She is the daughter of director Sidney Lumet and granddaughter of Lena Horne. Lumet is perhaps most known for writing the original screenplay of the 2008 Jonathan Demme film Rachel Getting Married.
John Cannan
John David Guise Cannan is a British murderer and rapist. Cannan, a former car salesman, was convicted in July 1988 of murder and sexual offences. He was given three life sentences, with a recommendation that he never be released, for the murder of Shirley Banks in Bristol in October 1987, the attempted kidnapping of Julia Holman on the previous night and the rape of a woman in Reading, Berkshire in 1986.
Hitomi Niiya
Hitomi Niiya is a Japanese long-distance runner who competes in track, cross country running and marathon races. Niiya competed for Japan at the 2012 Summer Olympics. She is a two-time silver medallist at the Asian Athletics Championships and has represented Japan three times at the World Athletics Championships. She represents Team Toyota Industries in national competition.
Priya Sachdev
Priya Sachdev Kapur is an Indian American businesswoman who has founded high fashion boutiques in several Indian cities as well as an e-commerce fashion business.
Abu Omar al-Shishani
Tarkhan Tayumurazovich Batirashvili, known by his nom de guerre Abu Omar al-Shishani or Omar al-Shishani, was a Georgian Chechen jihadist who served as a commander for the Islamic State of Iraq and Syria, and was previously as a sergeant in the Georgian Army.
Luke Voit
Louis Linwood Voit III is an American professional baseball first baseman for the New York Yankees of Major League Baseball (MLB). He played college baseball for the Missouri State Bears and made his MLB debut in 2017 with the St. Louis Cardinals, and also played for them in 2018 before being traded to the Yankees during the year. By 2019, he became the Yankees' starting first baseman.
Reema Bint Bandar Al Saud
Reema bint Bandar bin Sultan bin Abdulaziz Al Saud is a member of House of Saud and the Saudi Arabian ambassador to the United States. She took office as ambassador on 23 February 2019 -- becoming the first female envoy in the country's history. She has advocated for female empowerment and has worked to expand opportunities for Saudi women within the Kingdom.
Roger Mudd
Roger Harrison Mudd was an American broadcast journalist who was a correspondent and anchor for CBS News and NBC News. He also worked as the primary anchor for The History Channel. Previously, Mudd was weekend and weekday substitute anchor for the CBS Evening News, the co-anchor of the weekday NBC Nightly News, and the host of the NBC-TV Meet the Press, and American Almanac TV programs. Mudd is the recipient of the Peabody Award, the Joan Shorenstein Award for Distinguished Washington Reporting, and five Emmy Awards.