List of Famous people born on February 18th
Lasso
Lasso, is a Venezuelan singer / composer.
Pol García
Pol García Tena is a Spanish professional footballer who plays for Belgian club Sint-Truiden as a left back or a central defender.
Rafael Isea
Rafael Eduardo Isea Romero is a Venezuelan politician, and Governor of Aragua State from 2008 to 2012. A graduate of the Venezuelan Military Academy (1989), he participated in Hugo Chávez' February 1992 Venezuelan coup d'état attempt. From 2001 to 2004 he was Venezuela's representative to the Inter-American Development Bank. In the 2005 parliamentary elections he was elected to the National Assembly of Venezuela. In 2007 he was named deputy Minister of Finance, and in 2008, Minister of Finance of Venezuela, before being elected Governor of Aragua in the 2008 regional elections, beating PODEMOS' Henry Rosales.
Mahmoud Zulfikar
Mahmoud Zulfikar was an Egyptian film director and actor. He directed 40 films between 1947 and 1968. His 1964 film Soft Hands was entered into the 14th Berlin International Film Festival.
Cristián Gutiérrez
Cristián Daniel Gutiérrez Zúñiga is a professional soccer player who plays as a left-back for Major League Soccer club Vancouver Whitecaps FC. Born in Canada, he previously represented Chile at the U20 level, but filed his FIFA one-time switch in 2021 to switch allegiances to Canada.
Peter Meyer
Peter Meyer is a retired German football player. He spent four seasons in the Bundesliga with Fortuna Düsseldorf and Borussia Mönchengladbach. He also represented Germany once, in a UEFA Euro 1968 qualifier against Albania.
Tokihiko Okada
Tokihiko Okada was a silent film star in Japan during the 1920s and early 1930s. A native of Tokyo, he first started at the Taikatsu studio and later he was a leading player for Japanese directors such as Yasujirō Ozu and Kenji Mizoguchi. Film critic Tadao Sato recounts that Okada was among the handsomes and favorite Japanese actors of the era. Throughout his career, Okada played the role of the quintessential nimaime which were romantic, sensitive men as opposed to the rugged and hard-boiled leading men known as tateyaku. He was the father of film actress Mariko Okada. Tokihiko Okada died of tuberculosis at age 30.
Ibn Hajar al-Asqalani
Ibn Ḥajar al-ʿAsqalānī or Ibn Ḥajar, was a classic Islamic scholar and polymath "whose life work constitutes the final summation of the science of Hadith." He authored some 150 works on hadith, history, biography, tafsir, poetry, and Shafi'ite jurisprudence, the most valued of which being his commentary of the Sahih of Bukhari, titled Fath al-Bari.
Hans Woellke
Hans-Otto Woellke was a German shot putter, who won a gold medal at the 1936 Summer Olympics and a bronze medal at the 1938 European Championships.
Gerhard Klopfer
Gerhard Klopfer was a senior official of the Nazi Party and assistant to Martin Bormann in the Office of the (Nazi) Party Chancellery.