List of Famous Capricorns

Marina Kiehl is a former World Cup alpine ski racer from Germany.

John Richard Bond, also known as J. Richard Bond, is a Canadian astrophysicist and cosmologist.

Alberto Prada Vega is a Spanish professional footballer who plays for Austrian club SK Vorwärts Steyr as a left back.

Gigō Funakoshi (1906–1945) was the third son of Gichin Funakoshi and is widely credited with developing the foundation of the modern karate Shotokan style.

Zoran Ćirić is a writer from Niš, Serbia. He writes poetry and prose.

Bernice Mary Stegers is an English actress. She is known for her roles on television, as well as the horror films Macabre (1980) and Xtro (1982).

François Prélat was a Frenchman involved in gunmaking in the early part of the nineteenth century. It is sometimes claimed that he invented the first fully contained cartridge in 1808, as well as the percussion cap in 1818. However most gun historians agree that his expertise was not as a gunmaker but as someone who monitored British patents and patented the best of them in France, which was not subject to UK law. The innovations he is sometimes credited with are more properly the work of British innovators and his partner, the gunmaking genius that was Jean Samuel Pauly. The jury is out as to whether he invented anything, preferring to to 'borrow' ideas instead or just provide the financial backing for inventors. The invention of the percussion cap was claimed by several independent makers at around the same time. Despite the work of many historians over the course of many years since, there is still no definitive evidence for a single inventor. Prélat merely took out a French patent for it.