List of Famous Capricorns
Friedhelm Hillebrand
Friedhelm Hillebrand is a German engineer who has been influential in setting mobile telecommunications standards. Hillebrand is one of the inventors of the SMS, as he and Frenchman Bernard Ghillebaert created the concept for the service in 1984. As chairman of the non-voice services committee for the Global System for Mobile Communications standard in 1985, he conducted experiments to determine the length needed for text messages and found that 160 characters was sufficient. This subsequently became the basis for the 140 character limit now used by Twitter.
Mohammed bin Awad bin Laden
Mohammed bin Awad bin Laden was a multi-millionaire Saudi businessman working primarily in the construction industry. He founded what is today the Saudi Binladin Group and became the wealthiest non-royal Saudi, establishing the wealth and prestige of the Bin Laden family. He was the son of Awad bin Laden and the father of Osama bin Laden.
Tigran Keosayan
Tigran Edmondovich Keosayan is a Russian film director, actor and writer of Armenian origin. He is a winner of International Film Festival's Prize's including TEFI, Kinotavr and Window to Europe 2001.
Mac McClung
Matthew "Mac" McClung is an American college basketball player for the Texas Tech Red Raiders of the Big 12 Conference. He previously played for the Georgetown Hoyas. A consensus three-star recruit and among the highest ranked high school players in Virginia, McClung rose to national acclaim online with Gate City High School for his slam dunking ability.
Donya Samir Ghanem
Donia Samir Youssef Ghanem is an Egyptian actress and singer. She is the daughter of actor Samir Ghanem and actress Dalal Abdulaziz; and sister of Amy (Amal). Donia graduated from MSA university and began her artistic life in 2001 when she was 16. She had her first role in a TV show called "Justice has many faces".
Bernard Hopkins
Bernard Humphrey Hopkins Jr. is an American former professional boxer who competed from 1988 to 2016. He is one of the most successful boxers of the past three decades, having held multiple world championships in two weight classes, including the undisputed middleweight title from 2001 to 2005, and the lineal light heavyweight title from 2011 to 2012.
James Brooks
James Brooks is an American former professional football player who was a running back in the National Football League (NFL). He earned four Pro Bowl selections. He played college football for the Auburn Tigers.
Noah Feldman
Noah R. Feldman is an American academic, author, columnist, public intellectual, and host of the podcast Deep Background. He is the Felix Frankfurter Professor of Law at Harvard Law School and chairman of the Society of Fellows at Harvard University. His work is devoted to constitutional law, with an emphasis on free speech, law & religion, and the history of constitutional ideas.
Stefan Edberg
Stefan Bengt Edberg is a Swedish former world No. 1 professional tennis player. A major proponent of the serve-and-volley style of tennis, he won six Grand Slam singles titles and three Grand Slam men's doubles titles between 1985 and 1996. He also won the Masters Grand Prix and was a part of the Swedish Davis Cup-winning-team four times. In addition he won four Masters Series titles, four Championship Series titles and the unofficial Olympic tournament 1984, was ranked in the singles top 10 for ten successive years, and ranked 9 years in the top 5. Edberg began coaching Roger Federer in January 2014, with this partnership ending in December 2015.
Juri Manase
Juri Manase is a Japanese actress.