List of Famous people born on February 5th

Michael Courtney was an Irish prelate of the Catholic Church. He entered the diplomatic service of the Holy See in 1980 and was given the rank of archbishop and named Apostolic Nuncio to Burundi in 2000.

Achyut Patwardhan was an Indian independence activist and political leader and founder of the Socialist Party of India. He was also a philosopher who believed fundamental change in society begins with man himself.

Dwight Lyman Moody, also known as D. L. Moody, was an American evangelist and publisher connected with Keswickianism, who founded the Moody Church, Northfield School and Mount Hermon School in Massachusetts, Moody Bible Institute and Moody Publishers. One of his most famous quotes was “Faith makes all things possible... Love makes all things easy.“ Moody gave up his lucrative boot and shoe business to devote his life to revivalism, working first in the Civil War with Union troops through YMCA in the United States Christian Commission. In Chicago, he built one of the major evangelical centers in the nation, which is still active. Working with singer Ira Sankey, he toured the country and the British Isles, drawing large crowds with a dynamic speaking style.

Giovanni Di Clemente was an Italian television and film producer.

Jacqueline Anne Woodburne is an Northern Irish-born Australian actress, who is notable for her career on Australian television, and who is best known for her role of Susan Kennedy in Neighbours and her previous TV soap opera roles in The Young Doctors, Cop Shop, Sons and Daughters and Prisoner. As of 2021, she is the fourth longest-serving television soap opera actor in Australia, after Home and Away stars Ray Meagher and Lynne McGranger and her on-screen partner Alan Fletcher who joined Neighbours as Karl Kennedy nine episodes prior.