List of Famous Capricorns

Sir William "Willie" Purves, is a Scottish banker. He was the first Group Chairman of HSBC Holdings following the creation of a holding company to act as parent to The Hongkong and Shanghai Banking Corporation and the Midland Bank following the former's acquisition of Midland in 1992.

Sir Peter Bernhard Hirsch HonFRMS FRS is a figure in British materials science who has made fundamental contributions to the application of transmission electron microscopy to metals. Hirsch attended the Sloane School, Chelsea and St Catharine's College, Cambridge. In 1946 he joined the Crystallography Department of the Cavendish to work for a PhD on work hardening in metals under W.H. Taylor and Lawrence Bragg. He subsequently carried out work, which is still cited, on the structure of coal.

Mark Edward Womack is an English actor, known for starring in Liverpool 1, Sorted and Willy Russell's Dancin thru' The Dark. In 2020, he appeared in the ITV soap opera Emmerdale as DI Mark Malone.

Vladimir Ivanovich Semenets is a retired Soviet cyclist. He won a gold medal in the 2000 m tandem sprint at the 1972 Summer Olympics, riding with Igor Tselovalnikov. In the following five years he won three silver and one bronze medals in the tandem sprint at world championships.

Charles McDougall is a British Emmy Award and BAFTA-winning director.