List of Famous people born on February 9th

Michèle Rivasi is a French politician who has been serving as a Member of the European Parliament (MEP) since 2009, for Europe Écologie–The Greens.

Anak Agung Bagus Perwira Karang, known as Ajun Perwira is an Indonesian actor, presenter, and musician.

Andreas "Zecke" Neuendorf is a German former professional footballer who played as a midfielder.

Kristin Pudenz is a German athlete specialising in the discus throw. She won a gold medal at the 2017 Summer Universiade and a bronze medal at the 2015 European U23 Championships.

Erich Dagobert von Drygalski was a German geographer, geophysicist and polar scientist, born in Königsberg, then under the Province of Prussia.

Hugues de Payens or Payns was the co-founder and first Grand Master of the Knights Templar. In association with Bernard of Clairvaux, he created the Latin Rule, the code of behavior for the Order.

Shōhōzan Yūya is a Japanese professional sumo wrestler from Chikujō, Fukuoka. He made his professional debut in March 2006, reaching the top makuuchi division in November 2011. He has earned three Fighting Spirit prizes to date, and has been runner-up in one tournament. He has five kinboshi or gold stars for defeating yokozuna, three earned against Harumafuji and two against Kakuryū. The highest rank he has reached is komusubi, which he has achieved on five separate occasions, firstly in 2013.

Berdibek Mashbekuly Saparbayev is a Kazakh politician who was the Minister of Labor and Social Protection of Population in the Government of Kazakhstan from 2005 to 2007 and in 2019, governor of Aktobe Region, Deputy Prime Minister from 2019 to 2020. He's currently serving as an Akim of Jambyl Region.

Irene Wosikowski was a German political activist (KPD). After 1933 she continued with her political activity in Germany till 1935. The next two years were spent in Moscow after which, as instructed by the party, she moved to Paris which had become one of two de facto capitals for the exiled German Communist Party. She worked on political education and publishing till 1940 when she was placed in the Gurs internment camp. After her escape she joined the Résistance. Living "underground" (unregistered) she managed to remain at liberty till July 1943, despite the intensely dangerous nature of much of her resistance work, which included approaching German soldiers and engaging in "political" discussions to try and persuade them to face up to the accelerating savagery of the Shoah. Following her arrest Wosikowski was subjected to a sustained programme of torture and taken back to Germany where she was executed at Plötzensee on the edge of Berlin.

Andrey Olegovich Yeshchenko is a Russian professional footballer who plays as a right-back for FC Spartak Moscow.