List of Famous people born on February 5th

Waldir Lucas Pereira Filho was a Brazilian professional footballer who played as a forward.

Astrid Kumbernuss is a former German female shot putter and discus thrower.

Deng Yaping is a Chinese table tennis player, who won eighteen world championships including four Olympic championships between 1989 and 1997. She is regarded as one of the greatest players in the history of the sport.

General Gennady Nikolaevich Shpigun was the Russian Interior Ministry's special representative in Chechnya.

Jean-Paul Dupré French millionaire, member of the National Assembly of France from 1997 to 2017. He represented Aude's 3rd constituency, as a member of the Socialist Party and of the Socialiste, radical, citoyen et divers gauche parliamentary group. He is the mayor of Limoux.

Benno Müller-Hill was a German biologist and author. Together with Walter Gilbert, Müller-Hill purified the lac repressor, the first genetic control protein to be isolated. Müller-Hill has lectured widely and written books on the misuse of science by the Nazis.

Roger Kluge is a German professional racing cyclist, who currently rides for UCI WorldTeam Lotto–Soudal.

Frank Pagelsdorf is a German football manager formerly managing Al-Nasr Sports Club.

Carlos Soria Fontán is a Spanish mountain climber who, at 80 years of age, has taken up the challenge of becoming the oldest person in the world to reach the summits of the 14 highest mountains in the world. He is the only mountaineer to have ascended ten mountains of more than 8,000 meters after turning 60, and he is the oldest person in history to have successfully climbed the K2, Broad Peak (68), Makalu (69), Gasherbrum I (70), Manaslu, Kanchenjunga and Annapurna.

Michel Rousseau was a French amateur track cyclist. He won gold medals in the individual sprint at the 1956 Summer Olympics and 1956–1958 world championships, finishing second in 1959 and 1961.