List of Famous people born on February 25th

Horace Mann Jr. (1844–1868) was an American botanist, son of the man considered "father of American Public Education". His mother was one of the famous Peabody Sisters Mary Tyler Peabody Mann. Mentored in botany by Henry David Thoreau, whom he accompanied on an expedition to Minnesota, Mann took classes in zoology with Louis Agassiz and assisted William Tufts Brigham botanize the Hawaiian Islands. Mann was to have headed the botanical garden at Harvard, but died of tuberculosis at age twenty-four. His own herbarium was purchased by Cornell University and became the basis of that university's collection. He is credited with the discovery of more than 100 species.

Felix Benda was a Bohemian composer and organist. He was not a member of the Benda musical family.

Sinnathamby Rajaratnam, DUT ,, was a Deputy Prime Minister of Singapore from 1980–85. He took office when former deputy prime minister Goh Keng Swee, a long-serving Minister, member of the Cabinet from 1959–88, and short story writer, stepped down from the position. He is one of the founders of the ruling People's Action Party with Lee Kuan Yew, Lim Chin Siong and Toh Chin Chye.