List of Famous people born on February 2nd
Christiane Taubira
Christiane Marie Taubira is a French politician who served as Minister of Justice of France in the Ayrault Government under President François Hollande from 2012 until 2016. She was a member of the National Assembly of France for French Guiana (1993-2012) and of the European Parliament (1994-1999).
Valeri Karpin
Valery Georgiyevich Karpin is a Russian football manager and former player who manages FC Rostov and the Russia national team. He is a former midfielder, primarily a right midfielder.
Ivan Perišić
Ivan Perišić is a Croatian professional footballer who plays for Serie A club Inter Milan, and the Croatia national team. He usually plays as a winger, but can also be deployed as an attacking midfielder or second striker.
Christie Brinkley
Christie Brinkley is an American model, actress, and entrepreneur. Brinkley gained worldwide fame with her appearances in the late 1970s Sports Illustrated Swimsuit Issues, ultimately appearing on an unprecedented three consecutive covers starting in 1979. She spent 25 years as the face of CoverGirl, has appeared on over 500 magazine covers, and has signed contracts with major brands—both fashion and non-fashion.
Munetaka Murakami
Munetaka Murakami is a Japanese professional baseball player for the Tokyo Yakult Swallows of Nippon Professional Baseball (NPB).
David Jason
Sir David John White, known professionally by his stage name David Jason, is an English actor, voice actor, comedian, screenwriter, producer.
Shola Shoretire
Shola Maxwell Shoretire is an English professional footballer who plays as a forward for Premier League club Manchester United. He is named after the former Newcastle United striker, Shola Ameobi.
Park Geun-hye
Park Geun-hye is a former South Korean politician and convicted criminal who served as President of South Korea from 2013 until she was impeached in 2017. Park was the first woman to be President of South Korea and also the first female president popularly elected as head of state in East Asia. She was also the first South Korean president to be born after the founding of First Republic of Korea. Her father, Park Chung-hee, was the President of South Korea from 1963 to 1979, serving five consecutive terms after he seized power in 1961.
Paul Mescal
Paul Mescal is an Irish actor. He is best known for his starring role in the miniseries Normal People (2020), which earned him a Primetime Emmy Award nomination.
R. Scott Bakker
Richard Scott Bakker is a Canadian fantasy author and frequent lecturer in the South Western Ontario university community. He grew up on a tobacco farm in the Simcoe area. In 1986 he attended the University of Western Ontario to pursue a degree in literature and later an MA in theory and criticism. Since the late 1990s, he has been attempting to elucidate theories of media bubbles and the intellectual alienation of the working class. After all but dissertation in a PhD in philosophy at Vanderbilt University he returned to London, Ontario where he now lives with his wife and daughter. He spends his time writing split between his fiction and his ongoing philosophic inquiry.