List of Famous Aquarians
Felix Hoffmann
Felix Hoffmann was a German chemist notable for re-synthesizing diamorphine, which was popularized under the Bayer trade name of "heroin". He is also credited with synthesizing aspirin, though whether he did this under his own initiative or under the instruction of Arthur Eichengrün is contested.
Ryokichi Minobe
Ryokichi Minobe was a Japanese politician who served as Governor of Tokyo from 1967 to 1979. He is one of the best known socialist figures in modern Japanese history.
Shunichi Kawai
Shunichi Kawai is a Japanese former volleyball player who competed in the 1984 Summer Olympics and in the 1988 Summer Olympics. Since retiring he has been working as a sports announcer and television tarento.
Bige Önal
Bige Önal is a Turkish actress.
Vyacheslav Ivanovich Ivanov
Vyacheslav Ivanovich Ivanov was a Russian poet and playwright associated with the Russian Symbolist movement. He was also a philosopher, translator, and literary critic.
Anton Gerashchenko
Anton Yuriiovych Herashchenko is a deputy minister at the Ukrainian Ministry of Internal Affairs. He is a former member of the Ukrainian parliament (2014–2019). and was the subject of an assassination attempt in part because of his actions.
Jacques Cossette-Trudel
Jacques Cossette-Trudel is a Canadian who kidnapped British diplomat James Cross in the October Crisis of 1970 in Canada. Cossette-Trudel was a member of a cell of the Front de libération du Québec (FLQ) that kidnapped Cross in an attempt to start an uprising in Quebec, leading to its separation from Canada. Exchanged along with the rest of his cell in for a healthy Cross, he went into exile in Cuba and France. After his return, he was convicted of the offence of kidnapping and served time in prison. He has since worked as a communication counsellor and filmmaker in Quebec.
Ra'ad bin Zeid
Ra'ad bin Zeid is the son of Prince Zeid of the Hashemite House and Princess Fahrelnissa Zeid, a Turkish noblewoman. Upon the death of his father on 18 October 1970, he inherited the position as head of the former Royal Houses of Iraq. Ra'ad has lived in London and Paris.
Yoshino Mabuchi
Yoshino Mabuchi is a retired Japanese diver who won bronze medals in the 3 m springboard and 10 platform events at the 1982 Asian Games. She placed ninth in the platform at the 1984 Summer Olympics and could not compete at the 1980 Moscow Games due to their boycott by Japan. Her parents Kanoko Tsutani-Mabuchi and Ryo Mabuchi were also Olympic divers.
Clive Derby-Lewis
Clive John Derby-Lewis was a South African politician, who was involved first in the National Party and then, while serving as a member of parliament, in the Conservative Party. In 1993 he was convicted of conspiracy to murder South African Communist Party leader Chris Hani and sentenced to life imprisonment. Derby-Lewis was described as a "right-wing extremist" by The Daily Telegraph; and as someone who "even by South African standards...has acquired over the years a reputation as a rabid racist" by journalist and South Africa commentator John Carlin.