List of Famous people born in February
Vytautas Einoris
Vytautas Einoris was a Lithuanian agronomist, politician, former member of the Seimas and Minister of Agriculture.
Thomas Mellon
Thomas Mellon was an American entrepreneur, lawyer, and judge, best known as the founder of Mellon Bank and patriarch of the Mellon family of Pittsburgh.
Amir Hadj Massaoued
Amir Hadj Massaoued is a Tunisian football player.
Sophie Opel
Sophie Marie Opel, née Scheller, was a German early industrial entrepreneur. With her sisters Dorothée and Elise Scheller she invested in the Adam Opel works in Rüsselsheim and she managed the transformation from sewing machine and bicycle production to an automobile factory. After the death of her spouse and company owner Adam Opel in 1895 she became biggest shareholder and with two of her sons she developed the company to a leading European car company. In 1895 the firm already had over 1000 employees.
Maria Vittoria of Savoy
Maria Vittoria of Savoy was a legitimated daughter of Victor Amadeus II of Sardinia, first king of the House of Savoy. Married to the head of a cadet branch of the House of Savoy, she is an ancestor of the kings of Sardinia and of the Savoy kings of Italy.
Elizabeth Bosville Macdonald
John Loder, 2nd Baron Wakehurst
John de Vere Loder, 2nd Baron Wakehurst, was a British Army officer, politician and colonial administrator. After serving in the army, the Foreign Office, and as a Conservative Member of Parliament (MP) in the House of Commons, Wakehurst was appointed as the last British Governor of New South Wales, which he held from 1937 to 1946. Upon returning to Britain he was appointed Governor of Northern Ireland from 1952 to 1964. He was made a Knight of the Order of the Garter in 1962 and died in 1970.
John Crichton-Stuart, 6th Marquess of Bute
John Crichton-Stuart, 6th Marquess of Bute, was a Scottish peer, benefactor and patron of the arts. He was largely known either as Lord Bute or simply John Bute.
Pierre de Foix, le jeune
Peter of Foix the Younger was a French Roman Catholic bishop and cardinal.
George Gustavus, Count Palatine of Veldenz
George Gustavus was the Duke of Veldenz from 1592 until 1634.