List of Famous Scorpios

Polina Ghrighorievna Astakhova was a Soviet artistic gymnast. She won ten medals at the 1956, 1960 and 1964 Summer Olympics.

Gorges Lowther was an Irish Member of Parliament.

Hugh Boyle Ewing,, was a diplomat, author, attorney, and Union Army general during the American Civil War. He was a member of the prestigious Ewing family, son of Thomas Ewing, the eldest brother of Thomas Ewing, Jr. and Charles Ewing, and the foster brother and brother-in-law of William T. Sherman. General Ewing was an ambitious, literate, and erudite officer who held a strong sense of responsibility for the men under his command. He combined his West Point experience with the Civil War system of officer election.

Albert Nijenhuis was a Dutch-American mathematician who specialized in differential geometry and the theory of deformations in algebra and geometry, and later worked in combinatorics.