List of Famous people born on February 8th

Kenneth Merwin Curtis is an American attorney, Democratic politician, and diplomat. He was the Maine Secretary of State from 1965-1966, the Governor of Maine from 1966-1974, and the United States Ambassador to Canada from 1979 to 1981. Curtis is a member of the Democratic Party and is currently Of Counsel at the Curtis Thaxter law firm in Portland, Maine, which he founded in 1975.

Catherine Steadman is a British actress and author.

Carolyn Pickles is an English actress who has appeared in West End theatre and on British television. She played Shelley Williams in the ITV series Emmerdale.

General Khamtai Siphandone is a Laotian politician who was Chairman of the Lao People's Revolutionary Party from 24 November 1992 to 21 March 2006 and President of Laos from 24 February 1998 to 8 June 2006, when he was replaced by Choummaly Sayasone. He was a member of the Communist Party of Indochina in 1954 and a member of the Central Committee of the Lao People's Revolutionary Party in 1956.

Daniel Paul Tamberelli is an American actor, comedian and musician. He portrayed Little Pete in The Adventures of Pete & Pete from 1989 to 1995, Arnold Perlstein in The Magic School Bus, one of the cast members for Nickelodeon's All That from seasons four through six, panelist on the game show Figure It Out and Jimmy De Santa in Grand Theft Auto V.

Lothar Heinz Wieler is a German veterinarian and microbiologist who has been serving as president of the Robert Koch Institute (RKI) since 2015. In this capacity, he advises the German Federal and State Governments on topics of public health, especially infection hazards, and on the containment of the COVID-19 pandemic.