List of Famous Capricorns
Vamik Volkan
Vamık D. Volkan, M.D., DFLAPA, FACPsa, is a Turkish Cypriot psychiatrist, internationally known for his 40 years work bringing together conflictual groups for dialogue and mutual understanding. Among his many other honours, he is the president emeritus of International Dialogue Initiative (IDI).
Mahdi al-Mashat
Mahdi al-Mashat, is a Yemeni political figure from the Houthi movement. After the death of Saleh Ali al-Sammad on 19 April 2018, he became president of the Supreme Political Council. He was formerly the representative of Abdul-Malik Badreddin al-Houthi, the leader of the movement and director of his office.
Meier Schwarz
Meier Schwarz is an Israeli plant physiologist.
Sébastien Dhavernas
Sébastien Dhavernas is a Canadian actor.
Mehmet Akyüz
Mehmet Akyüz is a Turkish professional footballer who plays as a forward for Adana Demirspor.
Andrew Y. Ng
Andrew Yan-Tak Ng is a British-born American businessman, computer scientist, investor, and writer. He is focusing on machine learning and AI. As a businessman and investor, Ng co-founded and led Google Brain and was a former Vice President and Chief Scientist at Baidu, building the company's Artificial Intelligence Group into a team of several thousand people.
Claude McKenzie
Claude McKenzie is a Canadian singer-songwriter. An Innu from Maliotenam, he was half of the popular folk music duo Kashtin, the most commercially successful musical group in First Nations history.
Max Simon
Max Simon was a German SS commander and war criminal during World War II. Simon was one of the first members of the SS in the early 1930s. He rose through the ranks of the SS, and became a corps commander during World War II. After the war, Simon was convicted for his role in the Marzabotto massacre.
Ali Bayramoğlu
Ali Bayramoğlu, is a Turkish writer and political commentator. He was a columnist in the Turkish daily newspaper Yeni Safak, writing from a liberal pro-Islamic viewpoint. He has campaigned against ultra-nationalism, militarism and restrictions on Islamic political parties in Turkey, and in favour of greater recognition of, and accommodation with, the Kurdish population of Turkey, and a break with what he sees as Ottomanist tendencies which prevent Turkey from moving forward on issues such as the Armenian genocide. He has also warned against the possible rise of left-wing political violence in Turkey.
Nyan Tun
Thray Sithu Nyan Tun is a Burmese politician who currently serves as a member of parliament in the House of Representatives for Zigon Township constituency. He previously served as 2nd Second Vice President of Myanmar from 15 August 2012 to 30 March 2016. He is a commander-in-chief of the Myanmar Navy with the rank of admiral, retired in 2012. He was elected as Second Vice President of Myanmar on 15 August 2012 following the resignation of Tin Aung Myint Oo.