List of Famous people born in February

William Meyers Colmer was a Mississippi politician.

William Henry Washington was a Whig U.S. Congressman from North Carolina between 1841 and 1843.

William Gardner Hale, American classical scholar, was born in Savannah, Georgia to a resident New England family.

William Frank "Joe" Vinen is a retired British physicist specialising in low temperature physics.

Sir William Barclay Peat was born in Forebank, St Cyrus, Kincardine, Scotland. He was the second son of James Peat and Margaret Barclay. Peat studied at Montrose Academy in Scotland, and was then apprenticed to a local solicitor but he did not enter the legal profession.

Spiru C. Haret was an Armenian-Romanian mathematician, astronomer and politician. He made a fundamental contribution to the n-body problem in celestial mechanics by proving that using a third degree approximation for the disturbing forces implies instability of the major axes of the orbits, and by introducing the concept of secular perturbations in relation to this.