List of Famous people born in February
Maite Pagazaurtundúa
María Teresa Pagazaurtundúa Ruiz, better known as Maite Pagazaurtundúa or Maite Pagaza, is a Spanish politician, activist and writer. She is currently a Member of the European Parliament, and spokesperson of Unión Progreso y Democracia in the European Parliament.
Héctor Silva
Héctor Jesús "Lito" Silva is a Uruguayan football forward who played for Uruguay in the 1962 and 1966 FIFA World Cups. He also played for Danubio and C.A. Peñarol.
Princess Irene, Duchess of Aosta
Princess Irene of Greece and Denmark was the fifth child and second daughter of Constantine I of Greece and his wife, the former Princess Sophie of Prussia. She was a member of the royal families of Greece and Italy. From 1941 to 1943 she was also officially Queen Consort of Croatia.
Neslihan Yeldan
Neslihan Yeldan is a Turkish actress.
Isaias Afwerki
Isaias Afwerki is an Eritrean politician who has been the first and current president of Eritrea, a position he has held since after the Eritrean War of Independence in 1993. He led the Eritrean People's Liberation Front (EPLF) to victory in May 1991, ending the 30-year-old war for independence.
Verry Idham Henyansyah
Very Idham Henyansyah, also known as Ryan, is an Indonesian convicted serial killer. Henyansyah confessed to killing 11 people and was sentenced to death by the Indonesia criminal court after being arrested in 2008. He is awaiting execution at Kesambi Penitentiary in Cirebon.
Martin Hohmann
Martin Hohmann is a German lawyer and politician. He was a member of the German Parliament ("Bundestag") for the centre-right Christian Democratic Union (CDU), from 1998 until 2005. Since 2017 he has again been a member of the German Parliament for the AfD.
Buffy Sainte-Marie
Buffy Sainte-Marie, is an Indigenous Canadian-American singer-songwriter, musician, Oscar-winning composer, visual artist, educator, pacifist, and social activist. Throughout her career in all of these areas, her work has focused on issues facing Indigenous peoples of the Americas. Her singing and writing repertoire also includes subjects of love, war, religion, and mysticism. She has won recognition, awards and honours for her music as well as her work in education and social activism. Among her most popular songs are "Universal Soldier", "Cod'ine", "Until It's Time for You to Go", "Now That the Buffalo's Gone", and her covers of Mickey Newbury's "Mister Can't You See" and Joni Mitchell's "The Circle Game". Her music has been recorded by Elvis Presley, Neil Diamond, Donovan, Joe Cocker, Jennifer Warnes, Barbra Streisand, Shirley Bassey, Roberta Flack, Janis Joplin, and Glen Campbell.
Niklaus Wirth
Niklaus Emil Wirth is a Swiss computer scientist. He has designed several programming languages, including Pascal, and pioneered several classic topics in software engineering. In 1984, he won the Turing Award, generally recognized as the highest distinction in computer science, for developing a sequence of innovative computer languages.
Lena Petermann
Lena Petermann is a German football striker, currently playing for Montpellier in the Division 1 Feminine.