List of Famous Scorpios
Alexandre Stavisky
Serge Alexandre Stavisky was a French financier and embezzler whose actions created a political scandal that became known as the Stavisky Affair.
Linus Straßer
Linus Straßer is a German World Cup alpine ski racer, a slalom specialist. His first qualification for a World Cup second run came in a giant slalom at Beaver Creek in December 2014, but he failed to finish. Straßer has competed in three World Championships; in his first in 2015 at Beaver Creek, he was in tenth in the slalom. His first World Cup podium was a victory in a parallel slalom race in Stockholm in January 2017.
Benny Mardones
Benjamin" Ruben Armand "Benny" Mardones was an American pop/rock singer and songwriter noted for his hit single "Into the Night," which hit the top 20 on the Billboard Hot 100 chart twice, in 1980 (#11) and again in 1989 (#20).
Ludovic Obraniak
Ludovic Joseph Obraniak is a French manager and former footballer of Polish descent. He primarily played as an attacking midfielder. He represented the Poland national team. He was appointed to his first head coach position, with French Championnat National 3 side Le Touquet in June 2021.
Vijay Karnik
Vijay Karnik was a pilot in Indian Air Force. He is known for his leadership during Indo-Pakistani War of 1971. The Bhuj airstrip was destroyed in the Indo-Pakistani War of 1971, in air strikes in which Pakistani bombers dropped napalm bombs. Bhuj Airport Attack is compared to Attack on Pearl Harbor.The airfield was raided 35 times in 14 days with attacks by 92 bombs and 22 rockets. Karnik re-built Bhuj Airport within 3 days with the help of 300 women from local areas.
Chen Guangcheng
Chen Guangcheng is a Chinese civil rights activist who has worked on human rights issues in rural areas of the People's Republic of China. Blind from an early age and self-taught in the law, Chen is frequently described as a "barefoot lawyer" who advocates for women's rights, land rights, and the welfare of the poor.
Susan Kohner
Susanna "Susan" Kohner is an American former actress who worked in film and television. She is best known for her role as Sarah Jane in Imitation of Life (1959), for which she was nominated for an Oscar and won a Golden Globe award. She played a light-skinned black woman who "passed" for white as a child and young adult.
Tomohito Ito
Tomohito Ito is a Japanese former professional baseball player from Kyoto, Japan. He played for the Yakult Swallows from 1993–2003 before retiring. He currently works as a pitching coach for the Tokyo Yakult Swallows.
Carlos Castillo Armas
Carlos Castillo Armas was a Guatemalan military officer and politician who was the 28th president of Guatemala, serving from 1954 to 1957 after taking power in a coup d'état. A member of the right-wing National Liberation Movement (MLN) party, his authoritarian government was closely allied with the United States.
Makur Maker
Makur Maker is a South Sudanese-Australian college basketball player for the Howard Bison of the Mid-Eastern Athletic Conference (MEAC). A consensus five-star recruit, he committed to play college basketball for Howard, becoming the highest-ranked player in the modern recruiting era to commit to a historically black college or university (HBCU). Born in Nairobi, Kenya, Maker grew up in Perth, Western Australia, before playing high school basketball in North America. He is the cousin of basketball players Thon and Matur Maker.