List of Famous Sagittarians
Sebastian Horn
Sebastian Horn is a German musician and television presenter.
Manoj Punjabi
Manoj Punjabi is an Indian-Indonesian film and television producer and owner of the biggest production house in Indonesia.
Toshiki Abe
Toshiki Abe is a Japanese professional baseball infielder for the Chunichi Dragons in Japan's Nippon Professional Baseball.
Justin Meram
Justin Meram is an Iraqi-American professional footballer who plays as a forward for Real Salt Lake of Major League Soccer and the Iraq national team. Meram qualifies to represent Iraq through his parents, who were both born there.
Robert Plagnol
Robert Plagnol is a French actor, who starred as 'Boris Vilde' in the French TV series Résistance.
Qu Dongyu
Qu Dongyu took up office as the ninth Director-General of the Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) of the United Nations on 1 August 2019. He is the first Chinese national to head the Organization. Qu won the nomination on the first round of voting at the 41st FAO Conference on 23 June 2019, obtaining 108 of the 191 votes cast by the 194 member countries. He is married, with one daughter.
Ivica Kostelić
Ivica Kostelić is a former World Cup alpine ski racer from Croatia. He specialized in slalom and combined, but was also one of the few alpine World Cup ski racers able to score points in all disciplines. He is the brother of skiing champion Janica Kostelić. In his career he was coached by his father Ante Kostelić, as well as by Kristian Ghedina and Tomislav Krstičević.
Nicolás García Mayor
Nicolás García Mayor is an Argentine entrepreneur and industrial designer focused in humanitarian development, social innovation and environmental preservation. He worked and lived in Europe conducting various architectural and innovation design projects. Since 2000 he has been working as an Industrial Humanitarian Designer, identifying, designing, developing and implementing innovative solutions in countries in South America and abroad, including China, Austria, Spain, France, United Arab Emirates. Today, his designs travel around the globe and have been showcased in many countries. Among other recognitions, in 2014 he was awarded by JCI with Ten Outstanding Young Person of the World TOYP for his contribution to children, world peace and human rights. With his humanitarian innovation called Cmax System, he was invited to present in the 68th the United Nations General Assembly UN, in New York City. He was also invited to Vatican City by Pope Francis, who blessed his project for the humanitarian work refugees. The Government of Argentina honored him with one of the country’s highest awards “Ambassador of Argentina Country Brand” and the Senate of the Argentina Nation bestowed the award for “The Latin America Development Leadership”. In 2016, the US Government gave permanent residency status citing “Extraordinary Ability” and “Brilliant Talent”. As a social entrepreneur, he has given multiple TED (conference) around the globe and has worked as an innovation consultant for international organizations such as the United Nations (UN), the Inter-American Development Bank, universities worldwide, national and local governments and NGOs. Nicolas has been a Jury of Honor of Balseiro Institute and the National Atomic Energy Commission of Argentina. Garcia Mayor has also consulted as a researcher on humanitarian needs, assessments and mitigation for Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF) International, National Scientific and Technical Research Council in Argentina, Masdar Institute in Abu Dhabi, Nigeria Future Energy Group NIFEG, Salzburg Seminar in Austria. He was also selected by consultant Marcus Evans to join the World Industrial Design Summit in Cannes and Berlin as a consultant to leaders such as BMW, Audi, Coca-Cola, Google and Facebook among other companies.
- Founder of 5 companies
- Co-Founder and President of 8 NGOs and social benefit organizations
- Designer and developer of over 200 innovative products
Mansour Al-Balawi
Sheikh Mansour bin Hamdan bin Hamid al-Wayeou' al-Aradi al-Balawi was the Chairman of Saudi Arabian sport club Al-Ittihad from 2003 to 2008, in a famous boom period where he contributed to the club's major domestic and international achievements. He is considered to be one of the richest people in Saudi Arabia, and has a variety of diverse companies and real estates which he inherited from his father.
Paloma Herrera
Paloma Herrera is a prominent Argentine ballet dancer, choreographer, and artistic director who was a principal dancer with American Ballet Theatre, where she worked for twenty-four years. She is currently the director of Colon Theater Ballet.