List of Famous people born in February
Carl J. Shapiro
Carl J. Shapiro is an American businessman and philanthropist. In 1939 he founded Kay Windsor, Inc. in New Bedford, Massachusetts and built it into one of the largest women's clothing companies in the country. He is its former president and chairman of the board and was director of VF Corporation, which acquired Kay Windsor in 1971; he retired five years later.
Robert Rowland
Robert Andrew Rowland was a British politician who served as a Brexit Party Member of the European Parliament (MEP) for South East England from 2019 until the United Kingdom's exit from the EU in 2020. He was a member of the Committee on Economic and Monetary Affairs and was a substitute on the Committee for Industry, Research and Energy.
Giovanni Pico della Mirandola
Giovanni Pico della Mirandola was an Italian Renaissance nobleman and philosopher. He is famed for the events of 1486, when, at the age of 23, he proposed to defend 900 theses on religion, philosophy, natural philosophy, and magic against all comers, for which he wrote the Oration on the Dignity of Man, which has been called the "Manifesto of the Renaissance", and a key text of Renaissance humanism and of what has been called the "Hermetic Reformation". He was the founder of the tradition of Christian Kabbalah, a key tenet of early modern Western esotericism. The 900 Theses was the first printed book to be universally banned by the Church.
Craig Jones
Craig Michael Jones, also known by his nickname "133", is an American heavy metal musician. Born in Des Moines, Iowa, he is best known as the sampler and keyboardist in Slipknot. When performing with Slipknot, he is also referred to as #5. Jones joined the band in 1996 shortly after the recording of Mate. Feed. Kill. Repeat., replacing Donnie Steele on guitar, although he quickly moved onto the role of sampler. Following the departure of Joey Jordison in 2013, Jones is now the second-longest-serving member of Slipknot.
James E. Boasberg
James "Jeb" Emanuel Boasberg is a United States District Judge on the United States District Court for the District of Columbia, also serving as the Presiding Judge of the United States Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Court; and former associate judge on the Superior Court of the District of Columbia.
Randy Wicker
Randolfe Hayden "Randy" Wicker is an American author, activist and blogger. After involvement in the early homophile and gay liberation movements, Wicker became active around the issue of human cloning.
Heidi Stroh
Heidi Stroh is a German stage, film and television actress.
George Brady
George Jiri Brady was a Holocaust survivor of both Theresienstadt (Terezín) and Auschwitz, who became a businessman in Canada and was awarded the Order of Ontario in 2008.
Alfons Pawelczyk
Alfons Pawelczyk is a German politician. As a representative of the Social Democratic Party, he was Hamburg Senator of the Interior and second mayor in Hamburg.
Roberto Carlos Mario Gómez
Roberto Carlos Mario Gómez is an Argentine football manager and former player.