List of Famous people born on February 1st

Madeleine Chamot-Berthod is a Swiss former alpine skier. She was born in Château d'Oex, Vaud. Berthod was Swiss Sportspersonality of the year in 1956. She competed at the 1952, 1956 and the 1960 Winter Olympics, winning gold in the women's downhill at the 1956 Games.

Bahman Ghobadi is an Iranian-Kurdish film director, producer and writer. He was born on February 1, 1969 in Baneh, Kurdistan province, Iran. Ghobadi belongs to the "new wave" of Iranian cinema.

Richard John Williams is the guitarist for the American rock band Kansas and has been with them since their 1974 self-titled debut album.

Andrew David Smith is a British Labour Party politician who was the Member of Parliament (MP) for Oxford East from 1987 until 2017. He served in the Cabinet as Chief Secretary to the Treasury from 1999 to 2002 and then as Secretary of State for Work and Pensions from 2002 to 2004.

Lloyd Viel Berkner was an American physicist and engineer. He was one of the inventors of the measuring device that since has become standard at ionospheric stations because it measures the height and electron density of the ionosphere. The data obtained in the worldwide net of such instruments were important for the developing theory of short wave radio propagation to which Berkner himself gave important contributions.