List of Famous people born in February
Robert Mathis
Robert Nathan Mathis is a former American football outside linebacker who spent his entire 14-year career with the Indianapolis Colts of the National Football League (NFL). He played college football at Alabama A&M and was drafted by the Colts in the fifth round of the 2003 NFL Draft. A five-time Pro Bowler, Mathis won Super Bowl XLI with the Colts in 2006 over the Chicago Bears. He is also the NFL's all-time leader in forced fumbles. The year after retiring, Mathis joined the Colts as an assistant defensive coach.
Project Pat
Patrick Earl Houston, better known by his stage name Project Pat, is an American rapper from Memphis, Tennessee. He is the older brother of Juicy J, the co-founder of Three 6 Mafia.
Amanda Davis
Amanda Davis was an American writer and teacher who died in a plane accident.
Toshihide Maskawa
Toshihide Maskawa is a Japanese theoretical physicist known for his work on CP-violation who was awarded one quarter of the 2008 Nobel Prize in Physics "for the discovery of the origin of the broken symmetry which predicts the existence of at least three families of quarks in nature."
Lois Rice
Lois Ann Dickson Fitt Rice was an American corporate executive, scholar, and education policy expert. Known as the ‘‘mother of the Pell Grant” because of her work lobbying for its creation, she was national vice president of the College Board from 1973 until 1981. According to the Wall Street Journal, she was “among the first wave of African-American women serving on boards of major US corporations,” and under president Bill Clinton, she was a member of the President's Intelligence Advisory Board. For years, she was an economic studies expert at the Brookings Institution concentrating on education policy.
Victor Wood
Victor Wood was a Filipino singer, actor and politician. His voice earned him various titles, including "Jukebox King" and "Plaka King".
Cheam Channy
Cheam Channy was a Cambodian politician and member of parliament for the opposition Sam Rainsy Party (SRP). He was elected as a representative for Battambang Province in the 1998 National Elections, then again for Kompong Cham province in 2003.
Maxence Caqueret
Maxence Caqueret is a French professional footballer, who plays for Ligue 1 club Lyon as a midfielder.
Paul Dalglish
Paul Kenneth Dalglish is a former professional footballer who is currently the general manager and head coach of USL Championship side Miami FC.
Michael Grimm
Michael Gerard Grimm is an American politician and convicted felon, who represented New York in the United States Congress from 2011 to 2015 until his conviction and resignation from Congress. Grimm represented New York's 13th congressional district during his first term, after which he represented New York's 11th congressional district. Both districts consisted of Staten Island and parts of Brooklyn. Grimm is a member of the Republican Party, and during his time in office was the only Republican to represent a significant portion of New York City.