List of Famous Sagittarians
Waleed bin Ibrahim Al Ibrahim
Waleed bin Ibrahim Al Ibrahim is a Saudi Arabian businessman, and founder and chairman of Middle East Broadcasting Center, known as MBC Group. He is the first commercially successful TV channel owner in the Middle East.
Hozumi Hasegawa
Hozumi Hasegawa is a Japanese former professional boxer who competed from 1999 to 2016. He is the first Japanese boxer to win world titles in three weight classes, having held the WBC bantamweight title from 2005 to 2010; the WBC featherweight title from 2010 to 2011; and the WBC super bantamweight title in 2016. Hasegawa received MVP awards from the Japan Boxing Commission in 2005, 2006, 2008, and 2009 for his title defenses, and is the first Japanese boxer to have defended a bantamweight world title more four times.
Rubén Israel
Rubén Jorge Israel Yelen is a former Uruguayan footballer and a football team manager. He was most recently the head coach of LD Alajuelense.
Jennifer Oeser
Jennifer Oeser is a retired German heptathlete.
Seb Dance
Seb Dance is a British Labour Party politician who served as a Member of the European Parliament (MEP) for the London region from 2014 to 2020. He was Vice-Chair of the European Parliament Committee on the Environment, Public Health and Food Safety (ENVI) and sat on the European Parliament Committee on Industry, Research and Energy (ITRE), as well as the European Parliament Committee on Agriculture and Rural Development (AGRI). In his first mandate he also sat on the European Parliament Committee on Development (DEVE).
Valentin Baus
Valentin Baus is a German para table tennis player who competes in international level events. He is a double European champion and has won most team titles with Selcuk Cetin and Jan Gürtler.
Fatou Diome
Fatou Diome is a French-Senegalese writer known for her best-selling novel The Belly of the Atlantic, which was published in 2001. Her work explores immigrant life in France, and the relationship between France and Africa. Fatou Diome lives in Strasbourg, France.
Tōru Minegishi
Toru Minegishi is a Japanese video game composer known for his work on Nintendo games, most notably in The Legend of Zelda and Splatoon series. He was raised in a musical family and developed an interest in video games and their music from an early age. Minegishi did not receive any special education, but he gained experience as a musician during his school and college years. He later applied at Nintendo.
Tahir Teimurovitsch Salakhov
Tahir Salahov is a Soviet, Azerbaijani and Russian painter and draughtsman. First Secretary of the Union of Artists of the USSR (1973–1992), Vice-President of the Russian Academy of Arts, member of over 20 academies and other creative organizations throughout the world, including academies of art of France, Spain, Germany, Austria, etc.
Vladimir Shatalov
Vladimir Aleksandrovich Shatalov is a former Soviet cosmonaut who flew three space missions of the Soyuz programme: Soyuz 4, Soyuz 8, and Soyuz 10.