List of Famous Sagittarians

Laura Dean is an American dancer, choreographer and composer. She is known for her collaborations with Steve Reich, a number of commissioned works for the Joffrey Ballet, and works for her own dance companies. Dean's earliest works were marked by a minimalist approach and an affinity for spinning; her later work saw more use of traditional dance methods.

Edward Ott is an American physicist most noted for his contributions to the development of chaos theory.

Ronald John Greschner is a Canadian former professional ice hockey defenceman who played in the National Hockey League (NHL) for 16 seasons between 1974 and 1990.

Jerald LaVerne Ericksen is an American mathematician specializing in continuum mechanics.

John Asher Johnson is an American astrophysicist and professor of astronomy at Harvard. He is the first tenured African-American physical science professor in the history of the university. Johnson is well known for discovering three of the first known planets smaller than the Earth outside of the solar system, including the first Mars-sized exoplanet.

Hanns Jelinek was an Austrian composer of Czech descent who is also known under the pseudonyms Hanns Elin, H. J. Hirsch, Jakob Fidelbogen.

John Lowell Burton is an American politician and attorney. He served as Chairman of the California Democratic Party from April 2009 until May 2017. A professor of California Politics at San Francisco State University, he served in the California State Assembly (1965–74), in the U.S. House of Representatives (1974–1983), in the State Assembly again (1988–1996), and in the California State Senate (1996–2004). He was appointed to the San Francisco Port Commission in October 2020.

William Philip Minicozzi II is an American mathematician. He was born in Bryn Mawr, Pennsylvania, in 1967.