List of Famous Sagittarians
Kaitlyn Lawes
Lesley Kaitlyn Lawes is a Canadian curler. Lawes plays third for the Jennifer Jones team that represented Canada at the 2014 Winter Olympics where they won the gold medal. They were the first women's team to go through the Olympics undefeated and the first Manitoba based curling team to win at the Olympics. Lawes curled with John Morris in the mixed doubles event at the 2018 Winter Olympics where they won gold. This win made her and Morris the first Canadian curlers to win two Olympic gold medals, and Lawes was the first to win gold in two consecutive Olympics.
John R. Allen
John R. Allen is the president of the Brookings Institution, a retired United States Marine Corps four-star general, and former commander of the NATO International Security Assistance Force and U.S. Forces – Afghanistan (USFOR-A). On September 13, 2014, President Barack Obama appointed Allen as special presidential envoy for the Global Coalition to Counter ISIL. He was succeeded in that role by Brett McGurk on October 23, 2015. He is the co-author of Turning Point: Policymaking in the Era of Artificial Intelligence with Darrell M. West.
Ismaël Bennacer
Ismaël Bennacer is an Algerian professional footballer who plays as a midfielder for Serie A club Milan and the Algeria national team.
Miki Sudo
Miki Victoria Sudo is an American competitive eater. She has won the women's competition at the Nathan's Hot Dog Eating Contest every year since 2014, when she unseated Sonya Thomas, who had won the women's competition since its inception in 2011.
Claudia Pascual
Claudia Pascual Grau is a social anthropologist and politician from Chile, a member of the Communist Party.
Zafar Ansari
Zafar Shahaan Ansari is a former English cricketer who played for Surrey County Cricket Club and the England national team. A spin-bowling all-rounder, he bowled left-arm orthodox spin, and batted left-handed. He now works for the charity Inquest.
Steffi Jones
Stephanie Ann Jones is a football manager and former player who last managed the German women's national team. As a defender, she earned 111 caps for the national team between 1993 and 2007, helping her country win the 2003 FIFA Women's World Championship and three consecutive European Championships. After retiring from active football, Jones worked as a football administrator, in charge of organising the 2011 FIFA Women's World Cup in Germany, before becoming a manager.
Esha Gupta
Esha Gupta (born 28 November 1985) is an Indian film actress, model and the winner of the Miss India International title of 2007. She has established a career in Bollywood films.
Winston Marshall
Winston Aubrey Aladar Marshall is a British musician, best known as the banjoist and the lead guitarist of the Grammy Award-winning British folk rock band Mumford & Sons. He has been also been credited as Country Winston and WN5TN on the Mumford & Sons albums, Sigh No More and Wilder Mind.
Sharmeena Begum
Sharmeena Begum is one of the jihadi brides. She left the United Kingdom to join the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant (ISIL) in December 2014. Two months later, in February 2015, school friends Amira Abase, Shamima Begum and Kadiza Sultana joined her in occupied Syria. Begum is one of the youngest British teenagers to join ISIL.