List of Famous people born on February 8th

Iryna Oleksiyivna Merleni, née Melnyk (Мельник), married name Mykulchyn (Микульчин) is a Ukrainian wrestler, who competed in the – 48 kg weight class at the 2004 Summer Olympics and claimed the gold medal. In the same event at the 2008 Summer Olympics, she won a bronze medal. She is a three-time world champion, and won the European championship once.

Makhmud Muradov is a Tajik-born Uzbek-Czech professional mixed martial artist, former professional kickboxer and amateur combat sambist fighting out of Bukhara, Uzbekistan and Prague, Czech Republic. He is currently signed to the Ultimate Fighting Championship (UFC) Middleweight division.

Iwasaki Yanosuke was a Japanese businessman, central banker and the 4th Governor of the Bank of Japan (BOJ). He was created a Baron in 1900; and he was a member of Japan's House of Peers.

Curtis Pritchard is an English dancer and choreographer, known for his role as a professional dancer on the Irish version of Dancing with the Stars. In 2019, Pritchard appeared in the fifth series of the British dating reality series Love Island, finishing in fourth place.

Patrick Karam is a French personality defending human rights. He is a researcher in international relations. Former Interministerial Delegate for Equal Opportunities for French Overseas under, Nicolas Sarkozy, he is regional advisor of Île-de-France (UMP) since 2010 and Inspector General of Youth and Sports since 2011. He is the president of the Coordination of the Christians of East in Danger (CHREDO) established in September 2013. Patrick is the first president of the Representative Council of the French Overseas. Since December 2015 he has been vice-president of the regional council of Ile de France, responsible for youth, sports and community life.

Eugene Joseph Steratore is a former American football official in the National Football League (NFL) since 2003. He announced his retirement from the NFL in June 2018. He also worked as a National Collegiate Athletic Association (NCAA) Division I men's basketball referee from 1997 to 2018. Since the fall of 2018, Steratore has served as a rules analyst for CBS Sports, including the NFL on CBS, SEC on CBS, College Basketball on CBS, and CBS/Turner NCAA March Madness.

Bernard Courtois, also spelled Barnard Courtois, was a French chemist credited with first isolating iodine and morphine.

Hristo Stoichkov Stoichkov is a Bulgarian former professional footballer who is currently a football commentator for Univision Deportes. A prolific forward, he is regarded as one of the best players of his generation and is widely considered the greatest Bulgarian footballer of all time. He was runner-up for the FIFA World Player of the Year award in 1992 and 1994, and received the Ballon d'Or in 1994. In 2004, Stoichkov was named by Pelé in the FIFA 100 list of the world's greatest living players.

Vivian Kong Man Wai is a Hong Kong fencer. She competed in the women's épée event at the 2016 Summer Olympics. On 12 January 2019, she became the first Hong Kong fencer to win a World Cup title, doing so in Havana, Cuba. In March 2019, she was ranked no.1 in the world for Women's Epee. In the same year, she also won one of the bronze medals in the women's épée event at the 2019 World Fencing Championships held in Budapest, Hungary.

Robert Knox was an English sea captain in the service of the British East India Company. He was the son of another sea captain, also named Robert Knox.