List of Famous people born in February

Anthony Ashley Cooper, 3rd Earl of Shaftesbury was an English politician, philosopher, and writer.

Rudolf Edlinger was a Social Democratic Party of Austria politician who served as Austrian Finance Minister (1997–2000) under Chancellor Viktor Klima. He was the president of the football club SK Rapid Wien between 2001 and 2013.

Masuo Ikeda was a Japanese painter, printmaker, illustrator, sculptor, ceramist, novelist, and film director from Nagano Prefecture.

Gu Li is a Chinese professional Go player.

Cristian Damián Battocchio is an Argentine-born Italian professional footballer who plays as a midfielder for Japanese club Tokushima Vortis. Battocchio is a central midfielder and deep-lying playmaker.

Juan Carlos Olave is an Argentine retired footballer who played as a goalkeeper.

José Luis Capón González was a Spanish footballer from Madrid.

Carlo Osvaldo Goldoni was an Italian playwright and librettist from the Republic of Venice. His works include some of Italy's most famous and best-loved plays. Audiences have admired the plays of Goldoni for their ingenious mix of wit and honesty. His plays offered his contemporaries images of themselves, often dramatizing the lives, values, and conflicts of the emerging middle classes. Though he wrote in French and Italian, his plays make rich use of the Venetian language, regional vernacular, and colloquialisms. Goldoni also wrote under the pen name and title Polisseno Fegeio, Pastor Arcade, which he claimed in his memoirs the "Arcadians of Rome" bestowed on him.

Blas Parera (1777–1840) was a Spanish music composer and teacher. He lived his part of his life in Buenos Aires, Argentina.

John Schehr was a German political activist who became a Communist Party politician and ultimately, chairman (leader) of the party, following the arrest on 3 March 1933 of Ernst Thälmann. By this time the country was very rapidly being transformed into a one-party dictatorship, meaning that the party John Schehr led was outlawed, with those members of the leadership team who had not escaped abroad now living "underground" (unregistered) and in hiding. Schehr was nevertheless arrested on 13 November 1933 and taken to a Berlin concentration camp. He died when he was one of four men shot by Gestapo officials, reportedly "while escaping" during an overnight transport, following arrest.