List of Famous people born on February 12nd

Nicolás Cabrera (1913–1989), was a Spanish physicist who did important work on the theories of crystal growth and the oxidisation of metals. He was the son of another famous Spanish physicist Blas Cabrera and the father of American Physicist Blas Cabrera Navarro. He spent many years in exile during the Francoist State. He was Professor of the Department of physics in the University of Virginia, where he worked from 1952. He became known for his interests in engineering and material science. He founded the physics department and was Professor at the Autonomous University of Madrid (UAM), from 1971. He is considered to have given an impulse to the study of physics in Spain from the time of his return. For a time Javier Solana, whom he met at the University of Virginia, was his assistant in Madrid. Solana has described him as being a brilliant man but badly organised. The Nicolás Cabrera Institute, founded in 1989 in the UAM, is named after him.

James Paul Conrad is an American retired soccer player who played as a defender. During his 13-year MLS career, he was four-time MLS Best XI and the 2005 MLS Defender of the Year. He also earned 27 caps with the United States men's national soccer team and went to the 2006 FIFA World Cup.

Piqueti Djassi Brito Silva, knowly simply as Piqueti, is a Bissau-Guinean professional footballer who plays for Al-Shoulla as a right winger.

Silvia Saint, born Silvie Tomčalová is a former Czech pornographic actress. In 1996 she was Penthouse Pet of the Year in the Czech edition of the magazine. She has appeared in over 300 pornographic movies.

John Edward Gray, FRS was a British zoologist. He was the elder brother of zoologist George Robert Gray and son of the pharmacologist and botanist Samuel Frederick Gray (1766–1828). The standard author abbreviation J.E.Gray is used to indicate this person as the author when citing a botanical name. The same is used for a zoological name.

Eugen Ritter von Böhm-Bawerk was an Austrian economist who made important contributions to the development of the Austrian School of Economics and neoclassical economics. He served intermittently as the Austrian Minister of Finance between 1895 and 1904. He also wrote extensive criticisms of Marxism.

Wang Yeping is the wife of Jiang Zemin, former General Secretary of the Communist Party of China and President of the People's Republic of China, and is a native of Yangzhou, Jiangsu.

Joseph Lucien Charles Napoléon Bonaparte, 3rd Prince of Canino and Musignano, was born in Philadelphia as the son of Charles Lucien Bonaparte and his wife, Zénaïde Bonaparte.

Geoffrey William Algernon Howard JP was a British Liberal politician. He served as Vice-Chamberlain of the Household under H. H. Asquith between 1911 and 1915.