List of Famous people born on February 5th

Reid Sinnett is an American football quarterback for the Miami Dolphins of the National Football League (NFL). He played college football at San Diego.

Götz Wolfgang Werner is a German businessman.

Kurt Beck is a German politician (SPD), who served as the 7th Minister President of Rhineland-Palatinate from 1994 to 2013 and as the 55th President of the Bundesrat in 2000/01. On 14 May 2006 he succeeded Matthias Platzeck as chairman of the German Social Democratic Party (SPD). He resigned from that post on 7 September 2008.

Alison Hammond is an English television personality, presenter and actress. In 2002, she competed in the third series of Big Brother, and was the second housemate to be evicted. She has since become a presenter and reporter on ITV's This Morning, and has acted in various British television series including Doctors and The Dumping Ground.

Red Buttons was an American actor and comedian. He won an Oscar and a Golden Globe for his supporting role in the 1957 film Sayonara. He was nominated for awards for his acting work in films such as They Shoot Horses, Don't They? and Harlow; and Pete's Dragon. Buttons played a lead role, that of Private John Steele, in the 1962 international ensemble cast film, The Longest Day.

Commander Abhilash Tomy, KC, NM is an Indian naval officer and yachtsman. In 2013, he became the first Indian to complete a solo, non-stop circumnavigation of the world under sail, and he also competed in the 2018 Golden Globe Race. On 10 January 2021, he retired from the Navy by applying for premature retirement from service as he wanted to focus on participating in the Golden Globe Race in 2022.

Anthony Loke Siew Fook is a Malaysian politician who served as the Minister of Transport in the Pakatan Harapan (PH) administration under former Prime Minister Mahathir Mohamad from May 2018 to the collapse of the PH administration in February 2020. He has served as the Member of Parliament (MP) for Seremban since May 2013, Rasah from March 2008 to May 2013. He has also served as Member of the Negeri Sembilan State Legislative Assembly (MLA) for Chennah since May 2013, Lobak from March 2004 to May 2013. He is a member, 2nd Parliamentary Leader and National Organising Secretary of the Democratic Action Party (DAP), a component party of the PH opposition coalition. He is widely seen as the successor to Lim Guan Eng as the new and 6th leader and Secretary-General of the DAP. He also served as State Chairman of the Pakatan Rakyat (PR) state opposition coalition before PH took over power from the then-ruling Barisan Nasional (BN) state coalition in May 2018.

Katamso Darmokusumo was the commander of Military District (Korem) 072 in the Diponegoro Area Military command of the Indonesian Army in Central Java. He was kidnapped and killed by members of the 30 September Movement.

Anton von Padua Alfred Emil Hubert Georg Graf von Arco auf Valley, commonly known as Anton Arco-Valley, was a German far-right activist, Bavarian nationalist and nobleman. He assassinated the Bavarian prime minister Kurt Eisner, the first republican premier of Bavaria, on 21 February 1919.

Marc Weitzmann is a French journalist and novelist. The former editor-in-chief of Les Inrockuptibles, he hosts a weekly radio-show, Signe des Temps on the public radio France Culture, the French NPR, and is a regular contributor to Le Monde, Le Point, Le Magazine Littéraire, and the US news site Tablet Magazine. He is the author of 12 books.