List of Famous Sagittarians
Hanni Wenzel
Hannelore (Hanni) Wenzel is a former alpine ski racer from Liechtenstein, an Olympic, World Cup, and world champion. She won the country's first Olympic medal at the 1976 Winter Olympics in Innsbruck, Austria.
Félix Maritaud
Félix Maritaud is a French actor, notable for his roles in French queer cinema.
Ryuichi Ogata
Ryuichi Ogata , also known monomously as Ryuichi, is a Japanese former singer, dancer, rapper, and guitarist associated with Rising Production. In 2001, he rose to fame as a member of the pop group W-inds as the group's dancer, back-up vocalist, and rapper. In 2013, he formed the rock band All City Steppers and is their backing vocalist and guitarist.
Nick Proschwitz
Nick Proschwitz is a German professional footballer who plays as a forward for Eintracht Braunschweig. He began his career in Germany and Switzerland, before moving to England in 2012 where he spent the next three years.
Mathias Niederberger
Mathias Niederberger is a German professional ice hockey goaltender who currently plays for Eisbären Berlin of the Deutsche Eishockey Liga (DEL). His father Andreas Niederberger is a member of the German ice hockey Hall of Fame.
Lina Lazaar
Lina Lazaar is a Tunisian art critic and curator.
Leyla İmret
Leyla İmret is a Turkish politician of Kurdish origin. She grew up in Germany but returned to her home country in 2013 and was elected mayor of Cizre on 31 March 2014. She was dismissed from her position by the government on 11 September 2015 after the siege of Cizre during the Kurdish-Turkish conflict. She eventually fled to Germany where she has continued to speak out against human rights abuses in the region. She is the subject of a 2017 documentary film, Dil Leyla and winner of the ILHR's 2018 Carl von Ossietzky Medal.
Gao Yaojie
Gao Yaojie is a Chinese gynecologist, academic, and AIDS activist in Zhengzhou, Henan province, China. Gao has been honored for her work by the United Nations and Western organizations, and had spent time under house arrest. Her split with the Chinese authority on the transmission and the seriousness of the AIDS epidemic in China hinders her further activities and resulted in her leaving for the United States in 2009. She is now living alone in uptown Manhattan, New York City.
Brandon Sanderson
Brandon Sanderson is an American author of epic fantasy and science fiction. He is best known for the Cosmere fictional universe, in which most of his fantasy novels, most notably the Mistborn series and The Stormlight Archive, are set. He is also known for finishing Robert Jordan's high fantasy series The Wheel of Time.
Kōzō Okamoto
Kōzō Okamoto is a Japanese former communist and member of the Japanese Red Army (JRA).