List of Famous people born on March 2nd

Carl Edvard Rotwitt was a Danish jurist and politician. He served as the Prime Minister of Denmark 1859–1860. He died while in office only 47 years old.

Bernard Vernier-Palliez was a French businessman, diplomat, and French Ambassador to the United States, from 1982 to 1984.

Saint Angelus was a Catholic convert from Judaism and a professed priest of the Carmelites. He and his twin brother were converted to the faith once their mother did so while both became ordained priests and Carmelite friars. But, unlike his brother he retreated into the desert to a hermitage after his ordination. But, he emerged once he was instructed to go to the Italian mainland to evangelize as well as to meet with Pope Honorius III to have him approve a new rule for the Carmelites.

A. Earl Hedrick was an American art director. He was nominated for an Academy Award in the category Best Art Direction for the film The Proud and Profane.

Wander Johannes de Haas was a Dutch physicist and mathematician. He is best known for the Shubnikov–de Haas effect, the de Haas–van Alphen effect and the Einstein–de Haas effect.