List of Famous Taureans
Michael Aronov
Michael Aronov is an American actor who has worked in film, television and theatre. In 2017, he won the Tony Award for Best Featured Actor in a Play for his role as Uri Savir in the Broadway play Oslo. He is also known for playing the role of Anton Baklanov, a refusenik scientist in The Americans.
Michael Cates
Michael Elmhirst Cates is a British physicist. He is the 19th Lucasian Professor of Mathematics at the University of Cambridge and has held this position since 1 July 2015. He was previously Professor of Natural Philosophy at the University of Edinburgh, and has held a Royal Society Research Professorship since 2007.
Monique Pinçon-Charlot
Monique Pinçon-Charlot is a French sociologist, research director at CNRS until 2007, year of her retiring, attached to the Research Institute on Contemporary Societies/ l'Institut de recherche sur les sociétés contemporaines (IRESCO).
Éric Vuillard
Éric Vuillard is a French writer and film director. He has made two films, L'homme qui marche and Mateo Falcone, the latter based on a story by Prosper Merimee. He is the author of Conquistadors (2009) which won the Prix de l'inaperçu in 2010. He won the Prix Goncourt in 2017 for L'Ordre du jour.
Paul Adelstein
Paul Adelstein is an American actor, known for the role of Agent Paul Kellerman in the Fox television series Prison Break and his role as pediatrician Cooper Freedman in the ABC medical drama Private Practice. In addition to supporting roles in films such as Intolerable Cruelty and Memoirs of a Geisha, he is also known for his recurring role as Leo Bergen on ABC's Scandal and as Jake Novak in the Bravo television series Girlfriends' Guide to Divorce. He also played Shelley Cohen on Imposters, another Bravo series, and David Sweetzer on the short-lived NBC comedy I Feel Bad.
Chandler Hutchison
Chandler Hutchison is an American professional basketball player for the Chicago Bulls of the National Basketball Association (NBA). He played college basketball at Boise State.
Victoria Chaplin
Victoria Chaplin is a British-American circus performer. She is the daughter of film actor and comedian Charlie Chaplin from his fourth wife, Oona O'Neill, and the granddaughter of playwright Eugene O'Neill.
Krystyna Skarbek
Maria Krystyna Janina Skarbek,, also known as Christine Granville, was a Polish agent of the British Special Operations Executive (SOE) during the Second World War. She became celebrated for her daring exploits in intelligence and irregular-warfare missions in Nazi-occupied Poland and France. Journalist Alistair Horne, who described himself in 2012 as one of the few people still alive who had known Skarbek, described her as the "bravest of the brave." Spymaster Vera Atkins of the SOE described Skarbek as "very brave, very attractive, but a loner and a law unto herself."
Noor Hisham Abdullah
Noor Hisham bin Abdullah is a Malaysian civil servant and endocrine surgeon who has served as the Director-General of Health since March 2013. He served as the Deputy Director-General of Health (Medical) from February 2008 to his promotion to the Director-General in March 2013. In his role, he has been prominent in leading Malaysia's response to the COVID-19 pandemic.
Jane Cox
Jane Cox is an English actress, known for her role as Lisa Dingle in the ITV soap opera, Emmerdale, a role she portrayed from 1996 to 2019, and again briefly in 2020. In 2011, she was nominated for the British Soap Award for Best Actress for her portrayal.