List of Famous people born on February 8th

Şaziye İvegin is a Turkish female basketball player. Nicknamed "Şaz", the 1.80 m national plays forward. She currently plays for Abdullah Gül Üniversitesi.

Chester Floyd Carlson was an American physicist, inventor, and patent attorney born in Seattle, Washington.

Michael Rico Lang is a Swiss professional footballer who plays as a defender for German club Borussia Mönchengladbach and the Switzerland national team.

Hsieh Ming-yu is a Taiwanese singer-songwriter.

Mark Zamenhof is Esperanto form of Markus Fabianoviĉ Samenhof, "Christian" or goja name of Mordeĥaj Zamenhof, son of Fabian Zamenhof and father of L. L. Zamenhof ; teacher of languages French and German. Knight of many orders.

Henry Walter Bates was an English naturalist and explorer who gave the first scientific account of mimicry in animals. He was most famous for his expedition to the rainforests of the Amazon with Alfred Russel Wallace, starting in 1848. Wallace returned in 1852, but lost his collection on the return voyage when his ship caught fire. When Bates arrived home in 1859 after a full eleven years, he had sent back over 14,712 species of which 8,000 were new to science. Bates wrote up his findings in his best-known work, The Naturalist on the River Amazons.

Yuriy Mykolayovych Bereza is a Ukrainian politician and the commander of the Dnipro Battalion. In September 2014, he was awarded the Order of Bohdan Khmelnytsky, 3rd class. Representing People's Front, he was elected to the Verkhovna Rada in the 2014 Ukrainian parliamentary election. In the July 2019 Ukrainian parliamentary election Bereza was not re-elected. As an independent candidate in constituency 24 he gained 7.55% of the vote and lost the election to Dmytro Kysylevskyi of the party Servant of the People

Elina Mizuno is a Japanese dancer and actress. She is a former member of the groups E-girls and Flower. She left both groups in 2013 in order to pursue an acting career. She was formerly the leader of Flower.

Erich Böhme was a German journalist and television presenter.