List of Famous Cancerians
Sui Wenjing
Sui Wenjing is a Chinese pair skater. With partner Han Cong, she is the 2018 Olympic silver medalist, a two-time world champion, the 2019–20 Grand Prix Final champion, a six-time Four Continents champion, a three-time World Junior champion (2010–2012), the 2009–10 Junior Grand Prix Final champion, and a two-time Chinese national champion. Sui and Han have landed throw quadruple salchows and quadruple twists in competition.
Mélina Robert-Michon
Mélina Robert-Michon is a French discus thrower. She was the silver medalist at the 2013 World Championships and 2016 Summer Olympics and the national record holder. She earned the bronze medal at the 2017 World Championships.
Gregory Salcido
Gregory Salcido is a former Pico Rivera City Councilman who decided to not run for re-election in November 2020, a former candidate for Congress and former educator in Pico Rivera, California. Concurrently with his position as city councilman, Salcido served as mayor of Pico Rivera in 2002, 2010 and 2015. His derogatory comments about members of the United States armed forces, captured on video by one of his students, went viral in January 2018, leading to calls for his eventual dismissal as both teacher and city councilman in March 2018.
Kelechi Osemele
Kelechi Keith Ayo Osemele is an American football offensive guard for the Kansas City Chiefs of the National Football League (NFL). He played college football at Iowa State. He was selected by the Baltimore Ravens in the second round of the 2012 NFL Draft, and was a rookie starter throughout the team's Super Bowl XLVII championship run that season.
Scott Norwood
Scott Allan Norwood is a former American football placekicker who played in the National Football League (NFL) for seven seasons and spent the entirety of his career with the Buffalo Bills. He also played for the Birmingham Stallions in the United States Football League (USFL). An integral part of Buffalo's offense during the late 1980s and early 1990s, Norwood kicked in the team's first two Super Bowl appearances.
Jeff VanderMeer
Jeff VanderMeer is an American author, editor, and literary critic. Initially associated with the New Weird literary genre, VanderMeer crossed over into mainstream success with his bestselling Southern Reach Trilogy. The trilogy's first novel, Annihilation, won the Nebula and Shirley Jackson Awards, and was adapted into a Hollywood film by director Alex Garland. Among VanderMeer's other novels are Shriek: An Afterword and Borne. He has also edited with his wife Ann VanderMeer such influential and award-winning anthologies as The New Weird, The Weird, and The Big Book of Science Fiction.
Ivan Zatevakhin
Ivan Ivanovich Zatevakhin was a Red Army Lieutenant general who commanded the Soviet Airborne Forces (VDV) from 1944 to 1946.
Nourdin Boukhari
Nourdin Boukhari is a Moroccan former professional footballer who played as a midfielder. After retiring, he worked as a youth coach.
Richard Sukuta-Pasu
Richard Sukuta-Pasu is a German professional footballer who plays as a forward for SV Meppen.
Yana Zinkevych
Yana Vadimyvna Zinkevych is a Ukrainian member of parliament and military veteran who is since the 2019 Ukrainian parliamentary election serving as a representative of the European Solidarity party in the 9th convocation of the Verhovna Rada. She was placed 7th on the party's election list.