List of Famous Cancerians

Elio Vittorini was an Italian writer and novelist. He was a contemporary of Cesare Pavese and an influential voice in the modernist school of novel writing. His best-known work is the anti-fascist novel Conversations in Sicily, for which he was jailed when it was published in 1941. The first U.S. edition of the novel, published in 1949, included an introduction from Ernest Hemingway, whose style influenced Vittorini and that novel in particular.

Adrian Anthony Basora is an American diplomat, and former United States Ambassador to the Czech Republic. He is a senior fellow at the Foreign Policy Research Institute researching democratization in the post-Communist states of Europe and Central Asia, and a member of the Council on Foreign Relations.

Shep Pettibone is an American record producer, remixer, songwriter and club DJ, one of the most prolific of the 1980s.

Akira Aizawa is a Japanese long-distance runner.

Agnese Allegrini is a badminton player from Italy.

Emine Ayna, is a Kurdish politician in Turkey She was a member of the former Democratic Society Party (DTP). She joined the Peace and Democracy Party (BDP), after the Constitutional Court banned DTP on 11 December 2009.