List of Famous people born in February
Hiroya Shimamoto
Hiroya Shimamoto is a Japanese professional baseball pitcher for the Hanshin Tigers of Nippon Professional Baseball (NPB).
Samuel Moreno Rojas
Samuel Gustavo Moreno Rojas is a Colombian lawyer and politician, son of former congressman Samuel Moreno Díaz and former presidential candidate María Eugenia Rojas Correa, grandson of former Colombian political-military authoritarian leader and ex-president Gustavo Rojas Pinilla. His brother Iván Moreno Rojas is a former Mayor of Bucaramanga, minister and senator. On October 28, 2007, Moreno Rojas was elected Mayor of Bogotá representing the Alternative Democratic Pole (PDA) for the 2008-2012 term. On 3 May 2011, Moreno was suspended and stripped of his office by the Office of the Inspector General for improprieties in the appropriation of city contracts. For the same accusations, the Office of the Attorney General of Colombia argued for a pretrial detention, and Moreno was arrested on 23 September 2011. He was sentenced in 2016 to 18 years of prison for his direct involvement in a corruption scheme during his term.
Armando Monteiro Neto
Armando Monteiro is a Brazilian politician and lawyer. He has represented Pernambuco in the Federal Senate since 2011. He was the Minister of Development, Industry and Foreign Trade from 2015 to 2016, during the second term of president Dilma Rousseff. Previously he was a Deputy for Pernambuco from 1999 to 2011. He is a member of the Brazilian Labour Party.
Job Durupt
Job Durupt was a French politician. He was the mayor of Tomblaine from 1971 to 2001. He served as a Socialist member of the National Assembly from 1981 to 1988, representing Meurthe-et-Moselle. He became an officer of the Legion of Honour in 2016.
Kenneth Baugh
Kenneth Lee O'Neil Baugh, was a Jamaican politician and surgeon. A member of the Jamaica Labour Party, he served as Deputy Prime Minister, Minister of Foreign Affairs and Foreign Trade, and Minister of Health.
Ataata Moeakiola
Ataata Moeakiola is a Tongan born, Japanese rugby union player. His playing position is wing. He most recently played for the Chiefs in 2019.
Gina Rinehart
Georgina Hope "Gina" Rinehart is an Australian mining magnate and heiress. Rinehart is the Executive Chairman of Hancock Prospecting, a privately-owned mineral exploration and extraction company founded by her father, Lang Hancock.
John Brown Gordon
John Brown Gordon was an attorney, a slaveholding plantation owner, general in the Confederate States Army, and politician in the postwar years. By the end of the Civil War, he had become "one of Robert E. Lee's most trusted generals."
Hans Apel
Hans Eberhard Apel was a German politician and a member of the Social Democratic Party of Germany (SPD). From 1972 to 1974 he was Parliamentary State Secretary to the Foreign Minister. From 1974 to 1978 he was the Minister of Finance and from 1978 to 1982 he was the Minister of Defence.
Peggy Hsu
Peggy Hsu is a Taiwanese singer-songwriter, music composer, and music producer. She is the founder and lead vocalist/keyboardist of the band "Le Cirque".