List of Famous people born on February 28th

Masashi Asaki is a Japanese manga artist. He is best known as the artist for the series Psychometrer Eiji and Kunimitsu no Matsuri, both written by Shin Kibayashi under the name Ando Yuma, both of which have been adapted as live-action dramas. His current series, which he both writes and draws, is Denshi no Hoshi. All three series are unusual for shōnen manga in dealing with political themes. With Agi, he received the 2003 Kodansha Manga Award for shōnen for Kunimitsu no Matsuri.

Alexey I. Ekimov is a Russian solid state physicist who discovered the semiconductor nanocrystals known as quantum dots, while working at the Vavilov State Optical Institute. He was awarded the 1975 USSR State Prize in Science and Engineering for work on electron spin orientation in semiconductors. He is co-recipient of the 2006 R. W. Wood prize of the Optical Society of America for "discovery of nanocrystal quantum dots and pioneering studies of their electronic and optical properties". He currently works for Nanocrystals Technology Inc.

Ghailene Chaalali is a Tunisian professional footballer who plays as a midfielder for ES Tunis and the Tunisia national team.