List of Famous people born on February 9th

James "Jimmy" Owen Sullivan, also known by his stage name The Rev, was an American musician. He is best known as the drummer, songwriter, backing vocalist, and founding member of American heavy metal band Avenged Sevenfold. The Rev was widely regarded and critically acclaimed for his work on the band's albums, and contributed entire songs composed by himself, such as "Afterlife", "A Little Piece of Heaven", and "Almost Easy".

Virginia Carlota Corvalán was a Paraguayan lawyer and feminist. She was born on 9 February 1900 in Asunción, Paraguay, to Miguel Corvalán and Ana Casco. She studied at the National College, graduating in 1918, and was the only woman of the 40 graduates in that term. Between 1919 and 1921, she was actively campaigning for women's rights. She was a co-founder and participant in the Centro Feminista Paraguayo, which was pushing for passage of the draft law on equal rights between men and women, introduced by deputy Telémaco Silvera. The Center was the first feminist organization in Paraguay and included members such as Serafina Dávalos, Carmen Garcete, Carmen Gatti, Felicidad González, Adela Ibáñez, Ermelinda Ortiz, Sabrina Sapena Pastor, Catalina Steward, and Elida Ugarriza, among many others.

Maxime Dufour-Lapointe is a Canadian freestyle skier from Montréal, Quebec.

Carlos Alfredo de Brito, GCIH is a Portuguese politician. He joined the illegal Portuguese Communist Party (PCP) during the authoritarian New State regime (1932-1974), by whom he was imprisoned.

Erik Olin Wright was an American analytical Marxist sociologist and educator, specializing in social stratification and in egalitarian alternative futures to capitalism. He was known for diverging from classical Marxism in his breakdown of the working class into subgroups of diversely held power and therefore varying degrees of class consciousness. Wright introduced novel concepts to adapt to this change of perspective including deep democracy and interstitial revolution.

Thierry Fortineau was a French actor.

Mikhail Pavlovich Mokretsov is a Russian businessman and state official who served as Director of the Federal Taxation Service from 2007 and 2010.

Franz Xaver Gabelsberger was a German inventor of a shorthand writing system, named Gabelsberger shorthand after him.

Wu Jia-qing is a Taiwanese-born Chinese professional pool player. He is nicknamed the Taishan Shentong. In 2009, he obtained permanent residency in Singapore, which he subsequently turned down in 2010. Previously known as Wu Chia-ching, the spelling of his name was changed upon moving to mainland China.

Ander Gil García is a Spanish teacher and politician serving as the 62nd and current president of the Senate of Spain since 2021. Gil has been Senator for Burgos since 2011 and Spokesperson of the Socialist Group in the Senate from 2017 to 2021. Previously, Gil served as a local councillor for Valle de Mena from 1995 to 2011.