List of Famous people born in February
Taisuke Maruyama
Taisuke Maruyama is a professional Japanese baseball player. He is currently a free agent having previously played pitcher for the Chunichi Dragons.
Bernd Pischetsrieder
Bernd Peter Pischetsrieder is a German automobile engineer and manager.
Rik Battaglia
Rik Battaglia was an Italian film actor. He was born at Corbola, near Rovigo, Veneto. He mainly used the stage name of Rik Battaglia although alternate names he used for his films included Rick Austin, Riccardo Battaglia and Rick Battaglia. He would go on to appear in over 100 films from the 1955 to 1999.
Lorenzo Callegari
Lorenzo Callegari is a French professional footballer who plays as a midfielder for Ligue 2 side FC Chambly.
Georg Fahrenschon
Georg Fahrenschon is a German politician, representative of the Christian Social Union of Bavaria. From 2008 to 2011 he served as finance minister in the Bavarian State Ministry of Finance. He was a member of the Bundestag of Germany until 2007.
Jake Weary
Jacob Weary is an American actor, musician, singer-songwriter and music producer. He is known for his role as Luke Snyder in the CBS soap opera As the World Turns, Vince Keeler in NBC's action-drama series Chicago Fire, and for his role as Kevin in Fred: The Movie (2010), its two sequels, and the television adaptation, Nickelodeon's Fred: The Show. He currently stars as Deran Cody in the TNT drama series Animal Kingdom, based on the Australian film of the same name.
Wellington Luís de Sousa
Wellington Luís de Sousa, commonly known as Wellington, is a Brazilian professional footballer, who plays as a striker for Shonan Bellmare.
Frédéric Chatillon
Frédéric Chatillon is a French businessman, and communications adviser to Front National leader Marine Le Pen.
Ed "Too Tall" Jones
Ed Lee Jones, commonly known as Ed "Too Tall" Jones due to his height, is a retired American football player who played 15 seasons in the National Football League (NFL) for the Dallas Cowboys. In 1979, he briefly left football to attempt a career in professional boxing.
Kelly Johnson
Clarence Leonard "Kelly" Johnson was an American aeronautical and systems engineer. He is recognized for his contributions to a series of important aircraft designs, most notably the Lockheed U-2 and SR-71 Blackbird. Besides the first production aircraft to exceed Mach 3, he also produced the first fighter capable of Mach 2, the United States' first operational jet fighter, as well as the first fighter to exceed 400 mph, and many other contributions to various aircraft. As a member and first team leader of the Lockheed Skunk Works, Johnson worked for more than four decades and is said to have been an "organizing genius". He played a leading role in the design of over forty aircraft, including several honored with the prestigious Collier Trophy, acquiring a reputation as one of the most talented and prolific aircraft design engineers in the history of aviation. In 2003, as part of its commemoration of the 100th anniversary of the Wright Brothers' flight, Aviation Week & Space Technology ranked Johnson eighth on its list of the top 100 "most important, most interesting, and most influential people" in the first century of aerospace. Hall Hibbard, Johnson's Lockheed boss, referring to Johnson's Swedish ancestry, once remarked to Ben Rich: "That damned Swede can actually see air."