List of Famous Capricorns
Alfonso Lizarazo
Alfonso Lizarazo is a Colombian host and politician, he was the first host of Campeones de la risa, which in 1973 became known as Sábados Felices. He presented the program until 1998, when he was elected to the Senate of Colombia.
Park Joo-ho
Park Joo-ho is a South Korean football player who plays as a defender for Suwon FC. A versatile player, his primary position is left-back but he is also able play in midfield as a defensive or wide midfielder. As captain, he played for South Korea national under-20 soccer team in 2007 FIFA U-20 World Cup in Canada.
Takaya Kawauchi
Takaya Kawauchi is a professional Japanese baseball player. He plays pitcher for the Hiroshima Toyo Carp.
So Joo-yeon
So Joo-yeon is a South Korean model and actress under LSAC Model. She starred in the Korean television series Dr. Romantic 2 (2020).
Reem Bassiouney
Reem Bassiouney is an Egyptian author and professor of sociolinguistics, currently teaching at The American University in Cairo. She has written several novels and a number of short stories and won the 2009 Sawiris Foundation Literary Prize for Young Writers for her novel Dr. Hanaa. While a substantial amount of her fiction has yet to be translated into English, her novel The Pistachio Seller was published by Syracuse University Press in 2009, and won the 2009 King Fahd Center for Middle East and Islamic Studies Translation of Arabic Literature Award. Bassiouney also won Naguib Mahfouz Award from Egypt's Supreme Council for Culture in the best Egyptian novel category for her best selling novel, The Mamluk Trilogy.
Yoshihiro Kawaoka
Yoshihiro Kawaoka is a virologist specializing in the study of the influenza and Ebola viruses. He holds a professorship in virology in the Department of Pathobiological Sciences at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, USA, and at the University of Tokyo, Japan.
Tata Amaral
Tata Amaral is a Brazilian director, writer, producer and actress. She has won various awards across South America, including 'Best director' and 'Best film'.
Katajun Amirpur
Katajun Amirpur is a German-Iranian professor of Islamic Studies at Hamburg University.
Robert Misrahi
Robert Misrahi is a French philosopher who specialises in the work of 17th Century Dutch thinker Baruch Spinoza.
Artjoms Rudņevs
Artjoms Rudņevs is a Latvian former professional footballer who played as a striker for Daugava Daugavpils in his home country, for Zalaegerszegi TE in Hungary, for Lech Poznań in Poland, and for Bundesliga clubs Hamburger SV, Hannover 96, and 1. FC Köln. At international level, he represented the Latvia national team.