List of Famous people born in February
Maria Van Kerkhove
Maria DeJoseph Van Kerkhove is an American infectious disease epidemiologist. With a background in high-threat pathogens, Van Kerkhove specializes in emerging and re-emerging infectious diseases and is based in the Health Emergencies Program at the World Health Organization (WHO). She is the technical lead of COVID-19 response and the head of emerging diseases and zoonosis unit at WHO.
Jean-Pierre Jouyet
Jean-Pierre Jouyet was the ambassador of France to the United Kingdom.
Michael Holding
Michael Anthony Holding is a Jamaican cricket commentator and former cricketer who played for the West Indies cricket team. One of the best fast bowlers ever to have played Test cricket, he was nicknamed "Whispering Death" due to his silent, light-footed run up to the bowling crease. His bowling was smooth and extremely fast, and he used his height to generate large amounts of bounce and zip off the pitch. He was part of the fearsome West Indian pace battery, together with Joel Garner, Andy Roberts, Sylvester Clarke, Colin Croft, Wayne Daniel and the late Malcolm Marshall that devastated batting line-ups throughout the world in the seventies and early eighties. Early in his Test career, in 1976, Holding broke the record for best bowling figures in a Test match by a West Indies bowler, 14 wickets for 149 runs (14/149). The record still stands. During his first-class cricket career, Holding played for Jamaica, Canterbury, Derbyshire, Lancashire and Tasmania. In June 1988 Holding was celebrated on the $2 Jamaican stamp alongside the Barbados Cricket Buckle.
Ricardo Lucarelli de Souza
Ricardo Samuel Lucarelli Santos de Souza is a Brazilian volleyball player, member of the Brazil men's national volleyball team and Italian club Trentino Volley, 2016 Olympic Champion, silver medallist of the 2014 World Championship, gold medallist of the 2019 World Cup, three–time South American Champion.
Francis Marion
Francis Marion, also known as the Swamp Fox, was a military officer who served in the American Revolutionary War (1775–1783). Acting with the Continental Army and South Carolina militia commissions, he was a persistent adversary of the British in their occupation of South Carolina and Charleston in 1780 and 1781, even after the Continental Army was driven out of the state in the Battle of Camden. Marion used irregular methods of warfare and is considered one of the fathers of modern guerrilla warfare and maneuver warfare, and is credited in the lineage of U.S. Army Rangers and the 75th Ranger Regiment.
Lyudmila Gnilova
Lyudmila Vladimirovna Gnilova is a Russian and Soviet actress and voice actress. She was awarded as a Meritorious Artist.
Luigi Zingales
Luigi Zingales is a finance professor at the University of Chicago Booth School of Business and the author of two widely-reviewed books. His book Saving Capitalism from the Capitalists (2003) is a study of "relationship capitalism". In A Capitalism for the People: Recapturing the Lost Genius of American Prosperity (2012), Zingales "suggests that channeling populist anger can reinvigorate the power of competition and reverse the movement toward a 'crony system'."
Geoffrey Arend
Geoffrey Rashid Arend is an American film, television, voice and theater actor. He is best known for his role as Ethan Gross on the ABC drama series Body of Proof and Matt Mahoney on the CBS political drama series Madam Secretary.
Sonia Ben Ammar
Sonia Ben Ammar is a French-Tunisian model, actress and singer, who is currently signed with IMG Models. In November 2019, she released her debut EP SONIA.
Diego González
Diego Hernán González, also known as "Pulpo" González, is an Argentine professional footballer who plays as a midfielder for Boca Juniors in the Argentine Primera División.