List of Famous Sagittarians
Nuno Maulide
Nuno Maulide, born in 1979, is a Portuguese chemist, currently professor of organic chemistry at the University of Vienna.
Bryse Wilson
Bryse Everett Wilson is an American professional baseball pitcher for the Atlanta Braves of Major League Baseball (MLB). Wilson was drafted by the Braves in the fourth round of the 2016 MLB draft. He made his MLB debut in 2018.
Steve Timmons
Steve Dennis Timmons is an American former volleyball player who represented the United States at three consecutive Summer Olympics starting in 1984, winning gold in 1984 and 1988 plus a bronze in 1992.
Tsutomu Yamazaki
Tsutomu Yamazaki is a Japanese actor. He won the Blue Ribbon Award for Best Actor in 1984 for The Funeral and Farewell to the Ark. Yamazaki is well known for his role "Nenbutsu no Tetsu" on the television jidaigeki Hissatsu Shiokinin and Shin Hissatsu Shiokinin.
Ahmed Hussen
Ahmed Hussen is a Canadian lawyer and politician. He was national president of the Canadian Somali Congress. As of October 2015, Hussen is a member of Parliament (MP) representing the riding of York South—Weston as a member of the Liberal Party of Canada. He is also the first Somali-Canadian to be elected to the House of Commons and the first to hold a federal cabinet position.
Sonia Krimi
Sonia Krimi is a French–Tunisian politician of La République en Marche ! (LREM) who has been serving as a member of the French National Assembly since the 2017 elections, representing the 4th constituency of Manche. She defeated the endorsed LREM candidate, Blaise Mistler at the 2017 election. She is considered to be part of the party's left wing.
Tomu Mutō
Tomu Mutō is a Japanese idol and singer, and a member of the Japanese idol girl group AKB48. She is a member of AKB48's Team K. She is an alumna of Seijo University, where she studied economics and also earned her postgraduate degree, as well as a certified weather presenter.
Lin Zhao
Lin Zhao, born Peng Lingzhao (彭令昭), was a prominent dissident who was imprisoned and later executed by the People's Republic of China during the Cultural Revolution for her criticism of Mao Zedong's policies. She is widely considered to be a martyr and exemplar for Chinese and other Christians, like the Chinese church leader and teacher Watchman Nee.
Zanny Minton Beddoes
Susan Jean Elisabeth "Zanny" Minton Beddoes is a British journalist. She is the editor-in-chief of The Economist, the first woman to hold the position. She began working for the newspaper in 1994 as its emerging markets correspondent.
Phiona Mutesi
Phiona Mutesi is a Ugandan chess player. She has represented Uganda at four Women's Chess Olympiads, and is one of the first titled female players in Ugandan chess history. Mutesi is the subject of a 2012 book and a 2016 film called Queen of Katwe.