List of Famous Capricorns

Klaus Gehrig is a German businessman, the CEO of Schwarz Gruppe, a private family-owned German retail group that owns Lidl and Kaufland, and is the second-largest retailer in Europe. Gehrig succeeded company owner Dieter Schwarz as CEO of Lidl in 2004.

Abdullah Kassim Hanga (1932–1969) was Prime Minister of Zanzibar from 12 January 1964 to 27 April 1964. He was executed without Trial for an alleged 1967 plot to overthrow the Karume regime of the now united new country of Tanzania

Dmitri Vladimirovich Kovtun is a Russian businessman and ex-KGB agent who is also suspected to have murdered the ex-spy Alexander Litvinenko in London. Kovtun was also hospitalised with radiation poisoning.

Renan Zanatta Buiatti is a Brazilian volleyball player. He was part of the Brazil men's national volleyball team that finished in second place at the 2014 World Championship in Poland.

Rikako Morita is a Japanese professional golfer.

Frank A. Meyer is a Swiss journalist.

Louisa So Yuk Wa is a Hong Kong actress in drama and TV series. She is considered the "Cooking Mistress" of Hong Kong after winning the comedy cooking show Beautiful Cooking. In August 2009, she travelled by train across the United States, during which time she met Guardian journalist Douglas Rogers. After a brief break in 2009, she unexpectedly returned to acting in 2014 as the protagonist in the TVB drama Rear Mirror, a role that brought her wide critical acclaim, after the show received high viewership ratings.

Ricardo Hausmann is the former Director of the Center for International Development currently leading the Center for International Development’s Growth Lab and is a Professor of the Practice of Economic Development at the John F. Kennedy School of Government at Harvard University. He is also a former Venezuelan Minister of Planning and former Head of the Presidential Office of Coordination and Planning (1992–1993). He co-introduced several regularly used concepts in economics including original sin, growth diagnostics, self-discovery, dark matter, the product space, and economic complexity.

Natan Sharansky is an Israeli politician, human rights activist, and author who, as a refusenik in the Soviet Union during the 1970s and 1980s, spent nine years in Soviet prisons. He served as Chair of the Executive of the Jewish Agency from June 2009 to August 2018. Natan Sharansky currently serves as the Chairman of the Institute of the Study of Global Antisemitism and Policy (ISGAP) (www.isgap.org).

Maria Jepsen is the former bishop of Hamburg in the North Elbian Evangelical Lutheran Church. On 4 April 1992 the synod of the Hamburg Ambit elected her bishop, the first Lutheran woman to be a bishop worldwide, and since then she has been re-elected for a second ten-year period.