List of Famous people born in February
Jean-Pierre Bernès
Jean-Pierre Bernès is a French football agent and former football executive. Whilst general manager of Olympique de Marseille, Bernès was involved in the French football bribery scandal.
Pedro Pablo Nakada Ludeña
Pedro Pablo Nakada Ludeña a.k.a. "El Apóstol de la Muerte" is a Peruvian serial killer who claimed 25 victims and was convicted of 17 murders. He was sentenced to 35 years in prison.
John M. Allegro
John Marco Allegro was an English archaeologist and Dead Sea Scrolls scholar. He was a populariser of the Dead Sea Scrolls through his books and radio broadcasts. He was the editor of some of the most famous and controversial scrolls published, the pesharim. A number of Allegro's later books, including The Sacred Mushroom and the Cross, brought him both popular fame and notoriety, and also destroyed his career.
Nathan Walker
Nathan Walker is a Welsh born Australian professional ice hockey forward who is currently playing for the Utica Comets in the American Hockey League (AHL) while under contract to the St. Louis Blues of the National Hockey League (NHL). Walker, who was born in Wales, grew up in Australia and first played ice hockey there. He moved to the Czech Republic in 2007 in order to further his career, and joined the junior program of HC Vítkovice, a member of the Czech Extraliga. He first played for the senior team in 2011, becoming the first Australian ice hockey player to play for a professional senior team in Europe. Along with HC Vítkovice, Walker was loaned to several lower-level Czech teams.
Cevdet Sunay
Cevdet Sunay was a Turkish politician and army officer, who served as the fifth President of Turkey from 1966 to 1973.
Jaan Kross
Jaan Kross was an Estonian writer. He was nominated several times for the Nobel Prize in Literature during the early 1990s.
Michael Cullen
Sir Michael John Cullen was a New Zealand politician. He served as Deputy Prime Minister of New Zealand, also Minister of Finance, Minister of Tertiary Education, and Attorney-General. He was the Deputy Leader of the Labour Party from 1996 until November 2008, when he resigned following a defeat in the general election. He resigned from Parliament in April 2009, to become the deputy chairman of New Zealand Post from 1 November 2009 and chairman from 1 November 2010 until leaving the role in 2016. On 6 March 2020 he announced that he had resigned from the Lakes and Bay of Plenty district health boards, respectively. At the same time he also announced that he had been diagnosed with stage 4 small-cell lung cancer, which had also spread to his liver.
Takumi Ohshiro
Takumi Ohshiro is a Japanese professional baseball catcher for the Yomiuri Giants in Japan's Nippon Professional Baseball.
Jessica-Jane Clement
Jessica-Jane Stafford is an English actress, television presenter and former glamour model who is best known for starring in the BBC programme The Real Hustle from 2006 to 2012.
Mercedes Ruehl
Mercedes J. Ruehl is an American screen and stage actor. She is the recipient of several accolades, including an Academy Award, a Golden Globe Award, a Tony Award, a Drama Desk Award, two Obie Awards, and two Outer Critics Circle Awards.