List of Famous Capricorns
Jacky Ickx
Jacques Bernard "Jacky" Ickx is a Belgian former racing driver who won the 24 Hours of Le Mans six times and achieved eight wins and 25 podium finishes in Formula One. He also won the Can-Am Championship in 1979 and the 1983 Paris–Dakar Rally.
Angelica Ross
Angelica Ross (born 1980/1981 is an American businesswoman, actress, and transgender rights advocate. A self-taught computer coder, she went on to become founder and CEO of TransTech Social Enterprises, a firm that helps employ transgender people in the tech industry.
Miguel Oliveira
Miguel Ângelo Falcão de Oliveira is a Portuguese professional motorcycle racer who competes in the MotoGP World Championship for KTM Factory Racing, getting the step up from KTM Tech3, a satellite team, for whom he secured both the team's, and his, first and second win.
José Luis Perales
José Luis Perales Morillas is a Spanish singer-songwriter.
Jaume Roures
Jaume Roures Llop is a Spanish businessman, film producer, political activist and media mogul from Catalonia. Roures is best known as the CEO of Mediapro, a prominent television company operating out of Barcelona, of which he owns a 12% share. This company also owns the newspaper Público.
John Ruiz
John Ruiz is an American former professional boxer who competed from 1992 to 2010, and held the WBA heavyweight title twice between 2001 and 2005. Ruiz is of Puerto Rican descent, and is the first Latino boxer to win a world heavyweight title.
Durmuş Yılmaz
Durmuş Yılmaz is a Turkish economist and was the Governor of the Central Bank of the Republic of Turkey between 2006 and 2011. He served as a Member of Parliament for the electoral district of Uşak since the June 2015 general election, as a politician from the Nationalist Movement Party. He currently is the vice chairman specializing in economics of the newly-founded secular centrist İyi Party.
Ahmet Şık
Ahmet Şık is a Turkish investigative journalist, the author of several books, a trade unionist, and member of Parliament in Turkey. His book, The Imam's Army, investigating the controversial Gülen movement of the Islamic preacher Fethullah Gülen, led to his detention for a year in 2011–2012 and the book's being seized and banned. He was under indictment in the OdaTV case of the Ergenekon trials; his cause has been taken up by English PEN, an association of writers fighting for freedom of expression. In 2016, the prosecutor in this case requested Şık's acquittal. On 29 December 2016, Şık was taken into custody once again on charges of "propaganda of terrorist organisations", with reference to 11 tweets that he had published. The following day, an Istanbul judge ordered Ahmet's arrest. According to lawyers, Şık was denied access to legal advice, held in solitary confinement, and not given drinking water for three days.
Rachid Azzouzi
Rachid Azzouzi is a Moroccan former football midfielder and current sporting director. Raised in Germany, he represented Morocco at international level.
Pau Torres
Pau Francisco Torres is a Spanish professional footballer who plays as a centre-back for La Liga club Villarreal and the Spain national team.