List of Famous Sagittarians
Nigel Adams
Nigel Adams is a British politician who has served as Minister of State for Asia since 2020. A member of the Conservative Party, he has been Member of Parliament (MP) for Selby and Ainsty since 2010.
Deng Jiagui
Deng Jiagui is a Chinese businessman, and brother-in-law of China’s paramount leader and general secretary, Xi Jinping.
Ken Henry
Kenneth Ross Henry is an Australian economist and public servant. He served as the Secretary of the Department of the Treasury from 2001 to 2011, first appointed by Liberal Party Treasurer Peter Costello in April 2001, reappointed by Costello in 2006, and retained by the Rudd government. He chaired the Australia's Future Tax System Review, informally known as the Henry Tax Review, which was published in 2010. He retired in March 2011, and on 1 June 2011 was appointed as Special Advisor to the Prime Minister. He chaired the committee which produced a White Paper on "Australia in the Asian Century", released in mid-2012. Henry is the chairman of the Australian Securities Exchange (ASX) and the Sir Roland Wilson Foundation at the Australian National University, and is the outgoing chairman of the National Australia Bank.
Steve Elkington
Stephen John Elkington is an Australian professional golfer on the PGA Tour Champions. Formerly on the PGA Tour, he spent more than fifty weeks in the top-10 of the Official World Golf Ranking from 1995 to 1998. Elkington won a major title at the PGA Championship in 1995, and is a two-time winner of The Players Championship.
Nia Peeples
Virenia Gwendolyn "Nia" Peeples is an American R&B and dance music singer and actress. Peeples is known for playing Nicole Chapman on the hit TV series Fame; Pam Fields, the mother of Emily Fields, on the drama Pretty Little Liars; Karen Taylor Winters on The Young and the Restless; and Sydney Cooke on Walker, Texas Ranger. Her most recent television role was Grace's mom, Susan, on The Fosters.
Kumaar
Rakesh Kumar, known mononymously as Kumaar, is an Indian lyricist active in Bollywood cinema. Some of his more successful songs include Rula ke gaya ishq, Tu bhi royega, Dil ki aadat, Baby Doll, Chittiyaan Kalaiyaan, Sooraj Dooba hain, Lovely, Desi Look, Nachan Farrate and Main Hoon Hero Tera. He was nominated for Filmfare Awards for song Sooraj Dooba for film Roy.
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Gabriele Evertz
Gabriele Evertz is an American painter, curator and professor who is applying the history and theory of color in her work. She is known for abstract color painting and Geometric abstraction.
Agum Gumelar
Agum Gumelar is a politician and former general of the Indonesian National Armed Forces. He is a former minister having held several positions, a former chairman of Indonesian Football Association and National Sports Committee of Indonesia. He is an alumnus of the National Military Academy in Magelang, Central Java and Medical Faculty of Padjadjaran University in Bandung, West Java. In 1998, he received a master's degree from American World University, an organization forbidden to operate in 2005 because of its diploma mill action.
Jean-Pierre Filiu
Jean-Pierre Filiu is a French professor of Middle East studies at Sciences Po, Paris School of International Affairs. A historian and an Arabist, he has also been visiting professor at Columbia University and Georgetown University. He has been invited as a guest speaker to various American universities and think tanks, including the Harvard Kennedy School and the James Baker Institute. His "Apocalypse in Islam" was awarded the main prize (Augustin-Thierry) by the French History convention, held every October in the city of Blois.