List of Famous Capricorns

Kenji Shimizu , b. 1940, is an aikido teacher and founder of the aikido style Tendo-ryu Aikido (天道流).

Gürkan Coşkun or more widely known as Komet is a famous Turkish painter. After attending İstanbul State Academy of Fine Arts between the years 1960 and 1967, he moved to Paris in 1971. Today, he still splits his time between the two cities. His work is exhibited in various countries and is very respected in his home town. In his paintings, he usually blends fantasy and reality.

H. Bruce Franklin, is an American cultural historian and scholar. He is notable for receiving top awards for his lifetime scholarship in fields as diverse as American studies, science fiction, prison literature and marine ecology. He has written or edited twenty books and three hundred professional articles and participated in making four films. His main areas of academic focus are science fiction, prison literature, environmentalism, the Vietnam War and its aftermath, and American cultural history. He was instrumental in helping to debunk false public speculation that Vietnam was continuing to hold prisoners of war. He helped to establish science fiction writing as a genre worthy of serious academic study. In 2008, the American Studies Association awarded him the Pearson-Bode Prize for Lifetime Achievement in American Studies. A critic of the Vietnam War, he was fired from Stanford in 1972 for allegedly inciting to riot, and the termination brought nationwide attention to the issue of academic freedom. Since 1975, he is the John Cotton Dana Professor of English and American Studies at Rutgers University in Newark, New Jersey.