List of Famous people born in February
Dolly Rudeman
Dolly Rudeman was a Dutch graphic designer who produced posters for some of the most famous directors and film stars of her day, including Sergei Eisenstein, Charlie Chaplin, and Greta Garbo.
Philip Rogers
Philip Tingley Rogers was a sailor from Canada. He represented his country at the 1932 Summer Olympics in Los Angeles and earned a bronze medal in the 6 metre class.
Durham Stevens
Durham White Stevens was an American diplomat and later an employee of Japan's Ministry of Foreign Affairs, working for the Japanese colonial office in Korea, the Resident-General. He was fatally shot by Korean American activists, Jang In-hwan and Jeon Myeong-un, one of the first acts of nationalist rebellion by pro-Korean activists in the United States. The territory under Stevens' jurisdiction, within the Japanese government, would later be liberated at the cost of 12,000 Soviet lives and 21,000 Japanese lives, in the Battle of Manchuria during World War 2.
Christy Walton
Christy Ruth Walton is the widow of John T. Walton, one of the sons of Sam Walton, the founder of Walmart.
Drita D'Avanzo
Drita D'Avanzo is an Albanian-American reality star who appeared on the VH1 series Mob Wives from 2011 to 2016. She also appeared on Mob Wives spinoff Big Ang.
Simone de Oliveira
Simone de Macedo e Oliveira, GCIH better known as Simone de Oliveira is a Portuguese singer and actress. Simone was born and raised in Lisbon. Her Portuguese mother had black African roots in São Tomé and Príncipe, and her father was Belgian. She started singing in high school. She is a breast cancer survivor and had the sickness twice.
Teesta Setalvad
Teesta Setalvad is an Indian civil rights activist and journalist. She is the secretary of Citizens for Justice and Peace (CJP), an organisation formed to fight for justice for the victims of 2002 Gujarat riots. CJP is a co-petitioner seeking a criminal trial against Narendra Modi and sixty-two other politicians and government officials for alleged complicity in the Gujarat riots of 2002.
Shawne Williams
Shawne Brian Williams is an American professional basketball player who most recently played for Al-Riffa of the Bahraini Premier League. He played college basketball for the University of Memphis before being selected 17th overall in the 2006 NBA draft by the Indiana Pacers.
Michael Braungart
Michael Braungart is a German chemist who advocates that humans can make a positive instead of a negative environmental impact by redesigning industrial production and therefore that dissipation is not waste. A former Greenpeace activist who once lived in a tree as protest, he is now considered to be a visionary environmental thinker.
Josef Blösche
Josef Blösche was a member of the Nazi Party who served in the SS and SD during World War II. Blösche shot and killed many Jews, and helped send many more Jews to their deaths in extermination camps.