List of Famous Capricorns

Sami Hilmy al-Hinnawi was a Syrian politician and military officer.

Chang Ying-Tai, born in 1965, is an award-winning novelist and a professor in the Department of Humanities and Social Sciences at the National Taiwan University of Science and Technology. She devoted significant effort to pursuing her career as a writer and worked diligently on literature. During her early life, she had to overcome family upheavals and financial challenges resulting from unemployment after completing graduate school degrees. These experiences and life struggles have significantly influenced her diverse writing styles and contributed to her current achievements.

Fahad Maziad Al Rajaan was born on 23 December 1948 in Kuwait. From 1992 to 2015, Fahad Al Rajaan served as Company Director of Ahli United Bank (UK) Plc. Al Rajaan was sentenced in absentia in a Kuwait court for life for embezzling public funds and hiding them in accounts abroad.

Salim Barakat is a Kurdish-Syrian novelist and poet. He was brought up in Qamishli in northern Syria and spent most of his youth there. In 1970 he moved to Damascus to study Arabic literature but after one year he moved to Beirut where he stayed until 1982. While in Beirut he published five volumes of poetry, a diary and two volumes of autobiography. He moved to Cyprus and worked as a managing editor of the prestigious Palestinian journal Al-Karmel, whose editor was Mahmoud Darwish. In 1999 he moved to Sweden, where he still resides.

Nasser Mansi, is an Egyptian footballer who plays for Egyptian Premier League side Tala'ea El Gaish SC on loan from Pyramids as a forward.

Koichi Hamada is the Tuntex Professor Emeritus of Economics at Yale University, where he specializes in the Japanese economy and international economics. Hamada also serves as economic adviser to Japan's Prime Minister Shinzo Abe and is credited as one of the key architects of Abenomics, economic policies based upon "three arrows" of monetary easing, fiscal stimulus and structural reform. From January 2001 to July 2002, Hamada served as the first president of the Economic and Social Research Institute of the Cabinet Office of the Japanese Government. At one time Hamada was also a contender to head the WTO.

Maria Candace Yuen Ka-ning is a Hong Kong judge. She has served as a Justice of Appeal of the Court of Appeal since May 2002.