List of Famous people born on February 5th

Felice Lattuada was an Italian composer.

Maire-Ilon Wikland is an Estonian-born Swedish artist and illustrator.

József Tóth is a Hungarian politician, who has been the mayor of Angyalföld since 1994. He was also a member of the National Assembly (MP) for Angyalföld from 2002 to 2014. He is a member of the Hungarian Socialist Party.

Pierre-Gustave-Gaspard Joly de Lotbinière was a French businessman and amateur daguerreotypist, born citizen of the Republic of Geneva, and married to a Canadian seigneuress. Famous for being the first to photograph the Acropolis of Athens and some ancient Egyptian monuments, he is also the father of Sir Henri-Gustave Joly de Lotbinière, prime minister of Quebec from 1878 to 1879.

Edward Carrington Cabell was the first U.S. Representative from Florida.

Luc Ferrari was a French composer of Italian heritage and a pioneer in musique concrète and electroacoustic music. He was a founding member of RTF's Groupe de Recherches Musicales (GRMC), working alongside composers such as Pierre Schaeffer and Pierre Henry.

Margot von Renesse was a German politician.

Drummond Hoyle Matthews FRS, known as "Drum", was a British marine geologist and geophysicist and a key contributor to the theory of plate tectonics. His work, along with that of fellow Briton Fred Vine and Canadian Lawrence Morley, showed how variations in the magnetic properties of rocks forming the ocean floor could be consistent with, and ultimately help confirm, Harry Hammond Hess's 1962 theory of seafloor spreading. In 1989 he was awarded the Geological Society of London's highest honour, the Wollaston Medal.