List of Famous people born in February
Mahmoud Hemida
Mahmoud Hemida is an Egyptian actor and producer.
Yacoub Shaheen
Yacoub Shaheen is a Palestinian singer, residing in the West Bank.
Claude Le Péron
Claude Le Péron was a French bass guitarist known for his collaboration with Jean-Jacques Goldman among other musicians.
Igor Kostyukov
Admiral Igor Olegovich Kostyukov is a naval officer and is the current Head of the Russian General Staff's Main Intelligence Department (GRU). He was appointed the acting Director on 22 November 2018 following the death of his predecessor Igor Korobov and is a noted hardliner. This posting also made him the first naval officer in the history of the GRU to take the office of Director of Military Intelligence. He has been placed on the US Government's "blacklist" for allegedly interfering in the 2016 US Presidential elections. He was further promoted to the rank of Admiral in late 2019.
Maryna Poroshenko
Maryna Anatolyivna Poroshenko is a local (Kyiv) Ukrainian politician who was the First Lady of Ukraine and is the wife of former Ukrainian President Petro Poroshenko.
Mary Rudge
Mary Rudge was an English chess master.
Binyamin Ben-Eliezer
Binyamin (Fuad) Ben-Eliezer was an Iraqi-born Israeli politician and general. He served as a member of the Knesset between 1984 and 2014, and held several ministerial posts, including Minister of Industry, Trade and Labour; Minister of Defense; and Deputy Prime Minister.
Otto Liman von Sanders
Otto Viktor Karl Liman von Sanders was a German general who served as an adviser and military commander to the Ottoman Empire during the First World War. In 1918 he commanded an Ottoman army during the Sinai and Palestine Campaign.
Kodai Hamaya
Kodai Hamaya is a Japanese professional baseball pitcher who is currently a free agent. He has played in Nippon Professional Baseball (NPB) for the Tohoku Rakuten Golden Eagles and Yokohama DeNA BayStars.
Erich von Drygalski
Erich Dagobert von Drygalski was a German geographer, geophysicist and polar scientist, born in Königsberg, then under the Province of Prussia.