List of Famous people born on February 5th

Karl Blessing was a German banker. He was President of the Deutsche Bundesbank from 1958 to 1969.

Alfredo Vicente Scherer was a German-Brazilian Cardinal of the Roman Catholic Church. He served as Archbishop of Porto Alegre, Brazil from 1946 to 1996, and was elevated to the cardinalate in 1969.

Kristopher Lee Carter is an American composer. He grew up in San Angelo, Texas and lives in Los Angeles, California.

Jean Becquerel was a French physicist, and son of Antoine-Henri Becquerel. He worked on the optical and magnetic properties of crystals, discovering the rotation of the plane of polarisation by a magnetic field. He also published a textbook on relativity. In 1909, he became the fourth in his family to occupy the physics chair at the Muséum National d'Histoire Naturelle, following in the footsteps of his father, his grandfather A. E. Becquerel and his great-grandfather Antoine César Becquerel.

Jonathan Freeman is an American actor and puppeteer, known for puppetering and voicing Tito Swing in Shining Time Station and for voicing Jafar in Disney's Aladdin franchise, as well as the Kingdom Hearts franchise and the 2011 Aladdin musical.