List of Famous people born on February 12nd

William Howley was a clergyman in the Church of England. He served as Archbishop of Canterbury from 1828 to 1848.

Karl Hubert Rudolf Schiske was an Austrian composer and musical composition professor.

Roger Heim was a French botanist specialising in mycology and tropical phytopathology. He was known for his studies describing the anatomy of the mushroom hymenium, the systematics and phylogeny of higher fungi, the mycology of tropical fungi such as Termitomyces, as well as ethnomycological work on hallucinogenic fungi, like Psilocybe and Stropharia. In his career, he published over 560 articles, scientific reviews, and major works in fields like botany, chemistry, education, forestry, horticulture, liberal arts, medicine and zoology.

Stephen Richard Hackett is an English musician, songwriter, singer, and producer who gained prominence as the lead guitarist of the progressive rock band Genesis from 1971 to 1977. Hackett contributed to six Genesis studio albums, three live albums, seven singles and one EP before he left to pursue a solo career. He was inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame as a member of Genesis in 2010.

Pran Krishan Sikand, better known by his mononym, Pran, was an Indian actor, known as the greatest villain ever in the history of Indian cinema and character actor in Hindi cinema from the 1940s to the 1990s. He played hero roles from 1940–47, a villain from 1942–1991, and played supporting and character roles from 1948–2007. He is the original badman of Indian cinema. Such was the intensity of his negative performances on the screen that people stopped naming their children "Pran", when Pran was at the peak of his villainy. He has been one among the most highly successful actors in the history of Indian cinema.

Joseph Chinard was a French sculptor who worked in a Neoclassical style that was infused with naturalism and sentiment.

Donald MacDonald Kingsbury is an American–Canadian science fiction author. Kingsbury taught mathematics at McGill University, Montreal, from 1956 until his retirement in 1986.

Balthasar Glättli is a Swiss politician. He is a member of the National Council and, since June 2020, the president of the Green Party of Switzerland.