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Famous people born on February 28

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Well-known people born on February 28 include Linus Pauling (1901), Paul Krugman (1953), Frank Gehry (1929) and Gilbert Gottfried (1955). Our list below has 111 people for this date, most widely covered first.

This list covers people whose Wikidata record gives February 28 as their exact birth date and who have articles in at least 28 Wikipedia language editions. The earliest birth year here is 1683 (René Antoine Ferchault de Réaumur) and the most recent is 2005 (Vitor Roque). The most common fields on this date: football, actor, writer.

Who was born on February 28?

  1. Linus Pauling 1901 American scientist
  2. Paul Krugman 1953 American economist
  3. Frank Gehry 1929 Canadian and American architect
  4. Gilbert Gottfried 1955 American stand-up comedian
  5. Steven Chu 1948 American physicist, former United States Secretary of Energy, Nobel laureate
  6. Leon Cooper 1930 American physicist
  7. Dino Zoff 1942 Italian association football player and manager
  8. Marcel Pagnol 1895 Novelist, playwright and filmmaker from France
  9. Emmelie de Forest 1993 Danish singer
  10. Daniel C. Tsui 1939 Chinese-American physicist, Nobel laureate
  11. Philip Reeve 1966 English children's writer and illustrator
  12. Peter Medawar 1915 English-brazilian biologist
  13. Svetlana Alliluyeva 1926 Joseph Stalin's daughter
  14. Ali Larter 1976 American actress and model
  15. Mario Andretti 1940 Italian-American racing driver
  16. Jelena Janković 1985 Serbian tennis player
  17. John Turturro 1957 American actor
  18. Luka Dončić 1999 Slovenian basketball player
  19. Karl Ernst von Baer 1792 Baltic German scientist
  20. Arkadiusz Milik 1994 Polish association football player
  21. Natalia Vodianova 1982 Russian model
  22. Philip Showalter Hench 1896 American physician
  23. Brian Jones 1942 British musician
  24. Robert Sean Leonard 1969 American actor
  25. Sepp Maier 1944 German association football player and coach, goalkeeper
  26. Paulo Futre 1966 Portuguese association football player
  27. Vincente Minnelli 1903 American stage and film director
  28. Alfred von Schlieffen 1833 Prussian Field Marshal and Chief of the General Staff
  29. Anna Muzychuk 1990 Ukrainian chess player
  30. Mercedes Ruehl 1948 American actress
  31. Antonio Candreva 1987 Italian association football player
  32. Moise Kean 2000 Italian footballer
  33. Alexey Ekimov 1945 Russian physicist
  34. Charles Durning 1923 American actor
  35. Hiroshi Ochiai 1946 Japanese association football player
  36. Teiichi Matsumaru 1909 Japanese association football player
  37. Vsevolod Pudovkin 1893 Soviet film director, screenwriter and actor
  38. Christian Poulsen 1980 Danish association football player
  39. Karolína Kurková 1984 Czech model
  40. Berthold Auerbach 1812 German author
  41. Bernadette Peters 1948 American actress and singer
  42. Diego Ribas da Cunha 1985 Brazilian football player
  43. Teun Koopmeiners 1998 Dutch association football player
  44. Sebastian Rudy 1990 German association football player
  45. Juri Lotman 1922 Russian-Estonian semiotician
  46. Natalya Estemirova 1958 Russian human rights activist
  47. Daniel Handler 1970 American novelist, also known by the pseudonym Lemony Snicket
  48. Robin Cook 1946 British Labour Party politician
  49. Thomas Remengesau Jr. 1956 Former President of Palau
  50. Sébastien Bourdais 1979 French racecar driver
  51. René Antoine Ferchault de Réaumur 1683 French scientist
  52. Lloyd Sherr 1956 American actor
  53. Jan Ceulemans 1957 Belgian footballer
  54. Karsten Warholm 1996 Norwegian hurdler and sprinter
  55. Jeremy Allen White 1991 American actor
  56. Włodzimierz Lubański 1947 Polish footballer
  57. Ivo Karlović 1979 Croatian tennis player
  58. Tayshaun Prince 1980 American basketball player
  59. Ben Hecht 1894 American writer, director, and producer
  60. René Just Haüy 1743 French mineralogist
  61. Abdul Sattar Edhi 1928 Pakistani philanthropist, social activist, ascetic and humanitarian
  62. Stephen Spender 1909 English poet and man of letters
  63. Sarah Bolger 1991 Irish actress
  64. Oliviero Toscani 1942 Italian photographer
  65. Noureddine Morceli 1970 Retired athlete, winner of the 1500 m run at the 1996 Summer Olympics
  66. Yelena Slesarenko 1982 Russian athletics competitor
  67. Zero Mostel 1915 American actor
  68. Benjamin Raich 1978 Austrian alpine ski racer
  69. Jean Bourgain 1954 Belgian mathematician and Fields Medalist
  70. Storm Thorgerson 1944 English graphic designer
  71. Christopher C. Kraft 1924 American aerospace engineer
  72. Vitor Roque 2005 Brazilian association football player
  73. Christian Günter 1993 German footballer
  74. Josip Šutalo 2000 Croation association football player
  75. Ion Chicu 1972 Moldovan politician
  76. Rory Cochrane 1972 American actor
  77. Bubba Smith 1945 American football player and actor
  78. Geraldine Farrar 1882 American soprano opera singer and film actress
  79. Walter Tevis 1928 American writer
  80. Jake Bugg 1994 English singer-songwriter
  81. Hu'akavameiliku 1970 Prime Minister of Tonga from 2021 to 2024
  82. Roberto Trashorras 1981 Spanish footballer
  83. Louis Nirenberg 1925 American mathematician of Canadian origin
  84. Kaarlo Castrén 1860 Finnish politician and Prime Minister
  85. Djamolidine Abdoujaparov 1964 Uzbekistani racing cyclist
  86. Nedim Bajrami 1999 Albanian-Swiss association football player
  87. Angelababy 1989 Chinese model and actress
  88. Lee Carsley 1974 English-born Irish footballer and manager
  89. Suzanne Mubarak 1941 Former First Lady of Egypt
  90. Colum McCann 1965 Irish writer and journalist
  91. Futabatei Shimei 1864 Japanese author, translator and literary critic
  92. Max Vasmer 1886 Russian-German linguist
  93. Krishan Kant 1927 Vice President of India from 1997 to 2002
  94. Saul Zaentz 1921 American film producer and record company executive
  95. Tarik Muharemović 2003 Bosnian association football player
  96. Éder Álvarez Balanta 1993 Colombian footballer
  97. Markéta Irglová 1988 Czech singer-songwriter, musician and actress
  98. Prince Frederik of the Netherlands 1797 Dutch Royal
  99. Henri Breuil 1877 French priest and academic
  100. Ignaz von Döllinger 1799 German Catholic priest, theologian and historian
  101. Amir Hamzah 1911 Indonesian poet
  102. Gustav Thöni 1951 Italian alpine ski racer
  103. Galab Donev 1967 Prime Minister of Bulgaria from 2022 to 2023
  104. Frederick Francis II 1823 Prussian noble and general, Grand Duke of Mecklenburg-Schwerin
  105. Andriy Nesmachniy 1979 Ukrainian footballer
  106. Lucas Boyé 1996 Argentine association football player
  107. William McMaster Murdoch 1873 British sailor
  108. Otakar Vávra 1911 Czech film director, director, scriptwriter and university educator
  109. Alexandre-Théophile Vandermonde 1735 French mathematician
  110. Pavel Dybenko 1889 Soviet admiral
  111. Fredrik Stoor 1984 Swedish footballer

Names link to each person's Wikidata entry, the source of the date. Data: Wikidata (CC0), refreshed October 30, 2026. People born on February 28 share the 28th of February as a birthday; check the Famous Birthdays Finder for any other date.

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