List of Famous people born in February
Alfredo de la Fé
Alfredo De La Fé is a Cuban-born and New York-based violinist who lived in Colombia for more than 16 years and is responsible for transforming the violin into an important sound of Salsa and Latin music. The first solo violinist to perform with a Salsa orchestra, De La Fé has toured the world more than thirty times, appearing in concert and participating in more than one hundred albums by such top-ranked Latin artists as Eddie Palmieri, Tito Puente, Celia Cruz, José Alberto "El Canario", Cheo Feliciano, The Fania All-Stars, Santana and Larry Harlow. His second solo album, Alfredo, released in 1979, received a Grammy nomination as "Best Latin album".
Hans Christian Blech
Hans Christian Blech was a German film, stage and television character actor who found success in both Germany and Hollywood.
Justs Sirmais
Justs Sirmais, also known as simply Justs, is a Latvian singer and television presenter. He represented Latvia in the Eurovision Song Contest 2016 with the song "Heartbeat".
Shōta Sugiyama
Shōta Sugiyama is a professional Japanese baseball player. He last played catcher for the Chunichi Dragons.
Walraven van Hall
Walraven (Wally) van Hall was a Dutch banker and resistance leader during the occupation of the Netherlands in World War II. He founded the bank of the Resistance, which was used to distribute funds to victims of the Nazi occupation of the Netherlands and fund the Dutch resistance.
Thomas Fahrner
Thomas Fahrner is a former freestyle swimmer from Germany. At the 1984 Summer Olympics in Los Angeles Fahrner earned two medals bronze in the 200 m freestyle and silver in 4×200 m freestyle relay. He also set an Olympic record for the 400 m freestyle (3:50.91) in the B final. Four years later at the 1988 Summer Olympics in Seoul he earned another medal this time a bronze medal in the 4×200 m freestyle relay.
Eddie Mannix
Joseph Edgar Allen John "Eddie" Mannix was an American film studio executive and producer. He is remembered for his work protecting Hollywood stars as a "fixer", a person paid to disguise details of the stars' often colorful private lives to maintain their public image. Among his most lasting contributions to Hollywood was a ledger he maintained that lists the costs and revenues of every MGM film produced between 1924 and 1962, an important reference for film historians.
Joaquim Pina Moura
Joaquim Pina Moura was a Portuguese politician and economist. He was a member of the Socialist Party.
Andreas Flocken
Andreas Flocken was a German entrepreneur and inventor.
Lauren Lane
Lauren Lane is an American television and stage actress. She is best known for her role as C.C. Babcock on The Nanny.