List of Famous Sagittarians
Reg Spiers
Reginald James "Reg" Spiers is an Australian former athlete who competed in the javelin throw at the 1962 Commonwealth Games, before his later conviction on drug smuggling charges. He is best known for successfully posting himself in a box from England to Australia to avoid paying for a plane ticket.
Mauro Galvão
Mauro Geraldo Galvão is a Brazilian retired footballer who played as a sweeper,having won the title of Brazilian Champion four times, playing for Internacional (1979), Grêmio Portoalegrense (1996) and Vasco da Gama, along a span of 21 years; won the Libertadores Cup in 1998 and lost the finals of the 1999 Intercontinental Cup and of the 2000 FIFA Club World Championship.
Stephen Roche
Stephen Roche is an Irish former professional road racing cyclist. In a 13-year professional career, he peaked in 1987, becoming the second of only two cyclists to win the Triple Crown of victories in the Tour de France and the Giro d'Italia general classification, plus the World road race championship, the first was Eddy Merckx. Roche's rise coincided with that of fellow Irishman Sean Kelly.
Veerabhadran Ramanathan
Veerabhadran "Ram" Ramanathan is Edward A. Frieman Endowed Presidential Chair in Climate Sustainability Scripps Institution of Oceanography, University of California, San Diego. He has contributed to many areas of the atmospheric and climate sciences including developments to general circulation models, atmospheric chemistry, and radiative transfer. He has been a part of major projects such as the Indian Ocean Experiment (INDOEX) and the Earth Radiation Budget Experiment (ERBE), and is known for his contributions to the areas of climate physics, Climate Change and atmospheric aerosols research. He is now the Chair of Bending the Curve: Climate Change Solutions education project of University of California. He has received numerous awards, and is a member of the US National Academy of Sciences. He has spoken about the topic of global warming, and written that "the effect of greenhouse gases on global warming is, in my opinion, the most important environmental issue facing the world today."
Miralem Sulejmani
Miralem Sulejmani is a Serbian professional footballer who plays as a winger for BSC Young Boys and the Serbia national team.
Jan Philipp Albrecht
Jan Philipp Albrecht is a German politician of the Alliance '90/The Greens, part of The Greens-European Free Alliance. Since 2018, he has been serving as Minister for Energy, Agriculture, the Environment, Nature and Digitalization of Schleswig-Holstein. From 2009 until 2018, he was a Member of the European Parliament. He is specialized in the field of civil rights, data protection and democracy.
Lincoln Corrêa dos Santos
Lincoln Corrêa dos Santos, or simply Lincoln, is a Brazilian footballer who plays for Vissel Kobe as a Striker.
César Mascetti
César Mascetti is an Argentine journalist and TV news host. He began to work in the TV news Telenoche in 1966 with Mónica Cahen D'Anvers. Both of them received the Golden Martín Fierro award in 2001 for their long work. They were married in 2003 and left Telenoche in 2004, and worked instead in the radio program "Mónica y César" in Radio del Plata.
Evonne Hsu
Evonne Hsu, also known as Hsu Hui-hsin, is a Taiwanese-American Mandopop singer. Hsu is managed by Music Nation Wingman Limited and signed by Universal Music Taiwan since her debut in 2002.
Nils Melzer
Nils Melzer is a Swiss academic and author in the field of international law. Since 1 November 2016, Melzer has served as the United Nations Special Rapporteur on Torture and other Cruel, Inhuman or Degrading Treatment or Punishment. He is a professor of international law at the University of Glasgow and holds the Human Rights Chair at the Geneva Academy of International Humanitarian Law and Human Rights in Switzerland, where he has been teaching since 2009, including as the Swiss Chair of International Humanitarian Law (2011–2013).