List of Famous people born in February
Max Klinger
Max Klinger was a German artist who produced significant work in painting, sculpture, prints and graphics, as well as writing a treatise articulating his ideas on art and the role of graphic arts and printmaking in relation to painting. He is associated with symbolism, the Vienna Secession, and Jugendstil the German manifestation of Art Nouveau. He is best known today for his many prints, particularly a series entitled Paraphrase on the Finding of a Glove and his monumental sculptural installation in homage to Beethoven at the Vienna Secession in 1902.
Kenta Murayama
Kenta Murayama is a Japanese middle-distance and long-distance runner. He competed in the 10,000 metres event at the 2015 World Championships in Athletics in Beijing, China. His twin brother, Kota, competed in the 5000m. In 2018 he finished the marathons in Gold Coast with a personal best and Berlin, where he missed a record.
Omar Mascarell
Omar Mascarell González is a Spanish professional footballer who plays for German club FC Schalke 04 as a defensive midfielder.
Svetlana Rozhkova
Svetlana Anatolievna Rozhkova is a Russian humorist, an actress of a conversational genre. Honored Artist of Russia.
Elke Philipp
Elke Philipp is a German Paralympic equestrian.
Mariano Zabaleta
Mariano Zabaleta is a retired professional male tennis player from Argentina. He had an unusual but effective service motion. His best shot was his forehand and his favourite surface was clay. Zabaleta's career highlights include reaching the quarter-finals of the 2001 US Open and the final of the 1999 Hamburg Masters. He achieved a career-high singles ranking of World No. 21.
Alexander Merkel
Alexander Merkel is a Kazakh-German professional footballer who plays as a midfielder for Saudi Professional League club Al-Faisaly and Kazakhstan national football team.
Karin Hils
Karin Pereira de Souza is a Brazilian actress, singer and songwriter. In 2002, she won the talent show Popstars and joined the Brazilian girl group Rouge until 2005, with which she released four studio albums, Rouge (2002), C'est La Vie (2003), Blá Blá Blá (2004) and Mil e Uma Noites (2005), selling in all 6 million copies and becoming the most successful girl group of Brazil and one of the twenty that more sold in the world.
Shin'ichi Ōnuki
Shinichi Ohnuki is a professional Japanese baseball player. He plays pitcher for the Yokohama DeNA BayStars.
Vega
Mercedes Mígel Carpio, better known as Vega, is a Spanish singer-songwriter.