List of Famous people born in February
Princess Ayah bint Al Faisal
Princess Ayah bint Faisal of Jordan is the daughter of Prince Faisal bin Hussein and Princess Alia and is a niece of King Abdullah II of Jordan. She is the eldest of Prince Faisal's children.
Gustav Weigand
Gustav Weigand, was a German linguist and specialist in Balkan languages, especially Romanian and Aromanian. He is known for his seminal contributions to the dialectology of the Romance languages of the Balkans and to the study of the relationships between the languages of the Balkan sprachbund.
Andrew C. Fabian
Andrew Christopher Fabian is a British astronomer and astrophysicist. He has been Director of the Institute of Astronomy, University of Cambridge since 2013. He was a Royal Society Research Professor at the Institute of Astronomy, Cambridge from 1982 to 2013, and Vice-Master of Darwin College, Cambridge from 1997 to 2012. He served as president of the Royal Astronomical Society from May 2008 through to 2010.
Alberto Cavalcanti
Alberto de Almeida Cavalcanti was a Brazilian-born film director and producer. He was often credited with the single name Cavalcanti.
Adolf Lindfors
Adolf Valentin "Adi" Lindfors was a heavyweight Greco-Roman wrestler from Finland. He competed at the 1912, where we became injured and had to withdraw, and 1920 Olympics, where he won a gold medal, aged 41.
Yevgeny Polivanov
Yevgeny Dmitrievich Polivanov was a Soviet linguist, orientalist and polyglot who wrote major works on the Chinese, Japanese, Uzbek and Dungan languages and on theoretical linguistics and poetics.
Clemence Dane
Clemence Dane was the pseudonym of Winifred Ashton, an English novelist and playwright.
James Clark McReynolds
James Clark McReynolds was an American lawyer and judge from Tennessee who served as United States Attorney General under President Woodrow Wilson and as an Associate Justice of the United States Supreme Court. He served on the Court from October 1914 to his retirement in January 1941. He is best known today for his sustained opposition to the domestic programs of President Franklin D. Roosevelt and his overt anti-semitism.
Oreste Biancoli
Oreste Biancoli was an Italian screenwriter and film director. He wrote for 92 films between 1930 and 1986. He also directed nine films between 1938 and 1952. He was born in Bologna, Italy and died in Rome, Italy.
Emil Leon Post
Emil Leon Post was a Polish-born American mathematician and logician. He is best known for his work in the field that eventually became known as computability theory.