List of Famous people born in February
Mohammad Husni Thamrin
Mohammad Husni Thamrin was an Indonesian political thinker and National Hero.
Carlos Ponce
Carlos Antonio Ponce Diaz is a Puerto Rican former professional baseball first baseman who is currently coach for the Wei Chuan Dragons of the Chinese Professional Baseball League(CPBL).
John Vernon
John Keith Vernon was a Canadian actor. He made a career in Hollywood after achieving initial television stardom in Canada. He was best known for playing Dean Wormer in Animal House, the Mayor in Dirty Harry and Fletcher in The Outlaw Josey Wales.
Yoshishige Yoshida
Yoshishige Yoshida , also known as Kijū Yoshida, is a retired Japanese film director and screenwriter.
Marcel Bigeard
Marcel "Bruno" Bigeard was a French military officer who fought in World War II, Indochina and Algeria. He was one of the commanders in the Battle of Dien Bien Phu and is thought by many to have been a dominating influence on French 'unconventional' warfare thinking from that time onwards. He was one of the most decorated soldiers in France, and is particularly noteworthy because of his rise from being a regular soldier in 1936 to ultimately finishing his career in 1976 as a Lieutenant General. A former member of the French Resistance, he is associated mainly with the wars in Indochina and Algeria.
Huang Ta-chou
Huang Ta-chou, also known as Thomas Huang, is a Taiwanese politician who served as mayor of Taipei between 1990 and 1994. He chaired the Chinese Taipei Olympic committee from 1998 to 2006.
Vinícius Araújo
Vinícius Vasconcelos Araújo is a Brazilian professional footballer as a forward for Japanese club Montedio Yamagata.
Arnaud Danjean
Arnaud Danjean is a French politician and a Member of the European Parliament, elected in the 2009 European election for the East constituency. He was elected a member of the Burgundy Regional Council on 21 March 2010.
Jacques Pereira
Jacques Pereira, known simply as Jacques, was a Portuguese professional footballer who played as a striker.
Friedrich Glauser
Friedrich Glauser was a German-language Swiss writer. He was a morphine and opium addict for most of his life. In his first novel Gourrama, written between 1928 and 1930, he treated his own experiences at the French Foreign Legion. The evening before his wedding day, he suffered a stroke caused by cerebral infarction, and died two days later. Friedrich Glauser's literary estate is archived in the Swiss Literary Archives in Bern.