List of Famous people born in March
Arthur Ruppin
Arthur Ruppin was a Zionist thinker and leader. He was one of the founders of the city of Tel Aviv. He directed Berlin's Bureau for Jewish Statistics and Demography from 1902 to 1907. From 1908 on, he was the director of the Palestine Office of the Zionist Organization in Jaffa, organizing Zionist colonisation in Palestine. In 1926 Ruppin joined the faculty of the Hebrew University of Jerusalem and founded the sociology department. A building there is now named in his honor. His most celebrated sociological work is The Jews in the Modern World (1934).
Ruslan Fazlyev
Ruslan Renatovich Fazlyev is a Russian Internet entrepreneur who has founded several companies. He is best known as a founder and developer of Ecwid and X-Cart e-commerce platforms.
Feng Congde
Feng Congde is a Chinese dissident and Republic of China Restoration activist. He came into prominence during the Tiananmen Square protests of 1989 as a student leader from Peking University, which placed him onto the Chinese government's 21 Most Wanted list. He spent 10 months hiding in various locations in mainland China, until he was smuggled out to Hong Kong on a shipping vessel.
Ramón Menéndez Pidal
Ramón Menéndez Pidal was a Spanish philologist and historian. He worked extensively on the history of the Spanish language and Spanish folklore and folk poetry. One of his main topics was the history and legend of El Cid. He was nominated for a Nobel Prize 23 times, the most nominated person, three times more than the second most nominated person, André Malraux.
Sambou Yatabaré
Sambou Yatabaré is a Malian professional footballer who last played as a midfielder for Antwerp and the Mali national football team.
Alejandro Palacios
Miguel Alejandro Palacios Redorta is a former Mexican football goalkeeper who last played for Atlético San Luis in the Ascenso MX.
Benny Sa
Benny Sa, also known as Sa Beining is a Chinese television host known for his work for China Central Television (CCTV). He served as the one-time anchor of the documentary program Legal Report (今日说法).
Fons van Wissen
Fons van Wissen was a Dutch football player.
Raffael
Raffael Caetano de Araújo, known as simply Raffael, is a Brazilian professional footballer who plays as a forward or attacking midfielder. He is currently a free agent.
Yūka Tano
Yūka Tano is a Japanese idol singer, and a former member of the Japanese idol girl group AKB48. She was a member of AKB48's Team K.