List of Famous people born in March

François-Joseph Fétis was a Belgian musicologist, composer, teacher, and one of the most influential music critics of the 19th century. His enormous compilation of biographical data in the Biographie universelle des musiciens remains an important source of information today.

Michael ("Mike") Schmid is a Swiss freestyle skier who specializes in the ski cross discipline. He is the inaugural Olympic champion in the event.

David Heneker was a writer and composer of British popular music and musicals, best known for creating the music and lyrics for Half a Sixpence.

Chantal Magalie Mbazo'o-Kassa is a Gabonese poet and novelist.

David Elliot Shaw is an American billionaire scientist and former hedge fund manager. He founded D. E. Shaw & Co., a hedge fund company which was once described by Fortune magazine as "the most intriguing and mysterious force on Wall Street". A former assistant professor in the computer science department at Columbia University, Shaw made his fortune exploiting inefficiencies in financial markets with the help of state-of-the-art high speed computer networks. In 1996, Fortune magazine referred to him as "King Quant" because of his firm's pioneering role in high-speed quantitative trading. In 2001, Shaw turned to full-time scientific research in computational biochemistry, more specifically molecular dynamics simulations of proteins.