List of Famous people born in February

Tomisaku Kawasaki was a Japanese pediatrician who first described the condition now known as Kawasaki disease in the 1960s. Alongside rheumatic heart disease, Kawasaki disease is considered to be the leading cause of acquired heart disease in children worldwide.

Leonardo Nigro is a Swiss actor.

Kito de Pavant whose whole name is Christophe Fourcault de Pavant is a is a French sailor born on 23 February 1961 in Saint-Pardoux-la-Rivière in the Dordogne region.

Verena Preiner is an Austrian athlete who specialises in the heptathlon. She won the bronze medal at the 2019 World Championships.

Heinrich Christian Burckhardt was a German forester and entomologist.

Sir James Augustus Henry Murray, FBA was a Scottish lexicographer and philologist. He was the primary editor of the Oxford English Dictionary (OED) from 1879 until his death.

Facundo Bagnis is an Argentine professional tennis player. He has won 1 ATP doubles event at Stuttgart and 4 Challengers in singles, achieving a career-high singles ranking of World No. 55 in November 2016.

Gelena Martselievna Velikanova was a Soviet traditional pop performer, popular in the 1950s and 1960s, best remembered for her 1959 hit "Landyshi". Honoured with the People's Artist of Russia title in 1992, Velikanova then lost her voice due to incompetent medical treatment and had to stop performing. She died in 1998, two hours before her farewell concert in Moscow.

Valery Vladimirovich Fokin is a Russian theatrical director and writer. He is the Artistic Director of the Alexandrinsky Theatre in St. Petersburg, and the President of The Meyerhold Centre in Moscow. Fokin is decorated with four honorary Russian state awards.

Jeon Do-yeon is a South Korean actress. She won Best Actress at the 60th Cannes Film Festival, making her the first and only Korean ever to win an acting award at the prestigious film festival, and Best Performance by an Actress at the 1st Asia Pacific Screen Awards for her performance in Lee Chang-dong's 2007 film Secret Sunshine. Although she is not as broadly popular with the audiences as some other stars in South Korea due to her film choices, Jeon is widely respected and celebrated for her acting abilities, and many young actresses have cited her as a role model.