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Famous people born on February 8
Short answer
Well-known people born on February 8 include Jules Verne (1828), John Ruskin (1819), James Dean (1931) and Mauricio Macri (1959). Our list below has 104 people for this date, most widely covered first.
This list covers people whose Wikidata record gives February 8 as their exact birth date and who have articles in at least 28 Wikipedia language editions. The earliest birth year here is 1591 (Guercino) and the most recent is 2003 (Liam Delap). The most common fields on this date: football, actor, writer.
Who was born on February 8?
- Jules Verne 1828 French writer
- John Ruskin 1819 English writer and art critic
- James Dean 1931 American actor
- Mauricio Macri 1959 President of Argentina from 2015 to 2019
- Jack Lemmon 1925 American actor
- Martin Buber 1878 German Jewish Existentialist philosopher and theologian
- John Williams 1932 American composer and conductor
- Abdülaziz 1830 32th Sultan of the Ottoman Empire
- Franz Marc 1880 German artist
- John Grisham 1955 American writer
- Joseph Schumpeter 1883 Austrian political economist
- Benigno Aquino III 1960 President of the Philippines from 2010 to 2016
- Nick Nolte 1941 American actor
- Hristo Stoichkov 1966 Bulgarian footballer
- Joshua Kimmich 1995 German association football player
- William Tecumseh Sherman 1820 United States Army general
- Gary Coleman 1968 American actor
- Zakir Husain 1897 3rd President of India
- Tunku Abdul Rahman 1903 First Prime Minister of Malaysia
- Lana Turner 1921 American actress
- Elizabeth Bishop 1911 American poet
- Hakan Çalhanoğlu 1994 Turkish association football player
- Mary Steenburgen 1953 American actress, singer and songwriter
- Kate Chopin 1850 American author
- Louis Auguste Blanqui 1805 French socialist and political activist
- Alfred Gusenbauer 1960 Austrian chancellor
- Marina Silva 1958 Brazilian environmentalist and politician
- Takeshi Kamo 1915 Japanese association football player
- Vyacheslav Tikhonov 1928 Soviet and Russian actor
- Seth Green 1974 American actor
- Sebastião Salgado 1944 Brazilian photographer
- Edith Evans 1888 British actress
- Klay Thompson 1990 American basketball player
- Renato Augusto 1988 Brazilian association football player
- King Vidor 1894 American film director, film producer, and screenwriter
- Guercino 1591 Painter of the Italian 17th century
- Kathryn Newton 1997 American actress
- Paul Wight 1972 American professional wrestler and actor
- Wahbi Khazri 1991 Tunisian-French association football player
- Dave Farrell 1977 American bassist
- Eliphas Levi 1810 French occult writer and poet
- Khorloogiin Choibalsan 1895 Mongolian general and political leader from the 1930s to 1952
- Javi García 1987 Spanish footballer
- Bruno Martins Indi 1992 Dutch association football player
- Daniel Sanabria 1977 Paraguayan association football player
- Henry Walter Bates 1825 English naturalist and explorer
- Carolina Kostner 1987 Italian figure skater
- André Grétry 1741 Composer from present-day Belgium
- Antonio Cánovas del Castillo 1828 Spanish politician and Bourbon Restoration architect
- Genzebe Dibaba 1991 Ethiopian distance runner
- Gia Long 1762 Founder and 1st emperor of the Nguyễn dynasty of Vietnam (r. 1802-04)
- Alonzo Mourning 1970 American basketball player
- Atiba Hutchinson 1983 Canadian soccer player
- Carl Jenkinson 1992 English association football player
- Yacine Brahimi 1990 Algerian and French footballer
- Bill Finger 1914 American comic strip and comic book writer
- Kenedy 1996 Brazilian association football player
- Sakuramachi 1720 Emperor of Japan
- Liam Delap 2003 English association football player
- Alessia Russo 1999 English footballer
- Horst Eckel 1932 German association football player
- Yuri Averbakh 1922 Russian chess grandmaster and author
- Bethany Hamilton 1990 American surfer
- Walter Rothschild, 2nd Baron Rothschild 1868 British banker and zoologist
- Tajon Buchanan 1999 Canadian soccer player
- Khamtai Siphandone 1924 Former Chairman of the Lao People's Revolutionary Party
- Henri Giffard 1825 French engineer
- Francis Ysidro Edgeworth 1845 Irish economist
- Giancarlo González 1988 Costa Rican association football player
- Brooke Adams 1949 American actress
- Liam McIntyre 1982 Australian actor
- Siegfried Kracauer 1889 German writer, journalist, sociologist, cultural critic, and film theorist
- Marash Kumbulla 2000 Albanian association football player
- Rui Hachimura 1998 Japanese basketball player
- Caroline Augusta of Bavaria 1792 Queen of Bohemia
- Michael Lang 1991 Swiss footballer
- Niels Arestrup 1949 French actor, film director and screenwriter
- Jagjit Singh 1941 Indian Ghazal singer
- Steve Gohouri 1981 Ivorian footballer
- Jean-André Deluc 1727 Swiss geologist and meteorologist
- Josh Keaton 1979 American actor
- Vince Neil 1961 American singer
- Neal Cassady 1926 American writer
- Henry Czerny 1959 Canadian film, stage and television actor
- Ulises Cruz 1974 Ecuadorian footballer and politician
- Karl Theodor von Dalberg 1744 German archbishop of Mainz, later of Regensburg
- Hjörtur Hermannsson 1995 Icelandic association football player
- Mijat Gaćinović 1995 Serbian football player
- Ethan Phillips 1955 American actor
- Chester Carlson 1906 American physicist
- Preguinho 1905 Brazilian footballer
- Mathias Gidsel 1999 Danish handball player
- Jose Maria Sison 1939 Filipino Maoist leader
- Olga Syahputra 1983 Indonesian actor and singer
- Afshin Ghotbi 1964 Iranian-American football coach
- Miguel Pardeza 1965 Spanish footballer
- Kali-Svala Björgvinsdóttir 1977 An Icelandian singer
- Bernard Courtois 1777 Chemist
- Claude Rich 1929 French actor
- Mathilda May 1965 French actress
- Roberto Soriano 1991 Italian footballer
- Eiji Gaya 1969 Japanese association football player
- Vivian Kong Man-wai 1994 Member of the Legislative Council of Hong Kong, Hong Kong female politician, and…
- Ricardo Gallego 1959 Spanish 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 8 share the 8th of February as a birthday; check the Famous Birthdays Finder for any other date.