List of Famous Cancerians
Joe Arlauckas
Joseph John "Joe" Arlauckas is an American retired professional basketball player of Lithuanian descent. He played at the power forward position. Arlauckas is well-known for holding the record for the most points scored in a modern-era single EuroLeague game, including only games played since the 1991–92 season. He scored 63 points in a FIBA European League (EuroLeague) game, while playing for Real Madrid, against Virtus Bologna, during the 1995–96 season, on February 26, 1996. Radivoj Korać holds the all-time EuroLeague single-game scoring record, at 99 points scored, counting all games played since the competition began during the 1958 season.
Dmitry Balmin
Dmitry Balmin is a retired Russian ice hockey defender. He played 16 seasons in Ak Bars. He played nearly 900 games for Tatarstanian teams.
María Belén Pérez Maurice
María Belén Pérez Maurice is an Argentinian sabre fencer, Pan American champion in 2014. She was the only representative of the sport from Argentina at the 2012 Summer Olympics in London, and at the 2020 Summer Olympics in Tokyo.
Valentin Madouas
Valentin Madouas is a French cyclist, who currently rides for UCI WorldTeam Groupama–FDJ. In May 2019, he was named in the startlist for the 2019 Giro d'Italia. In August 2020, he was named in the startlist for the 2020 Tour de France.
Jorge Reynolds Pombo
Jorge Reynolds Pombo is an electrical and bio- engineer born in Colombia, he is known for contributing to the invention of the pacemaker, being one of the first doctors Latin America to make a big contribution to the medical field. In 1957, Earl Bakken of Minneapolis, Minnesota, produced the first wearable external pacemaker for a pediatric patient of C. Walton Lillehei. The Swede Rune Elmqvist (1906-1996) developed the first pacemakern internally implanted in 1958.
Frederic Oudéa
Frédéric Oudéa is a French businessmann who currently serves as CEO of Société Générale and as president of the European Banking Federation.
Dmitry Sosnovskiy
Shōhei Tsukahara
Shohei Tsukahara is a Japanese professional baseball pitcher for the Orix Buffaloes in Japan's Nippon Professional Baseball.
Peter Schäfer
Peter Schäfer is a prolific German scholar of ancient religious studies, who has made contributions to the field of ancient Judaism and early Christianity through monographs, co-edited volumes, numerous articles, and his trademark synoptic editions. He was a Professor of Religion and the Ronald O. Perelman Professor of Judaic Studies at Princeton University from 1998 to 2013. He was the director of the Jewish Museum of Berlin until June 2019 when he resigned amid criticism after a museum spokesperson issued a tweet critical of a Bundestag resolution that said the Boycott, Divestment and Sanctions movement had an anti-semitic character. Subsequently, he received letters of support from 95 museum directors and curators, 445 Jewish studies scholars and 45 Talmudists.
Harold LeBel
Harold LeBel is a Canadian politician in Quebec, who was elected to the National Assembly of Quebec in the 2014 election. He represents the electoral district of Rimouski as a member of the Parti Québécois.