Which sign has the most famous people?
Within chance
Cancer leads by a hair: 505 of 5,739 famous people. Every sign is within chance, each about as common as the days the Sun spends in it.
Sun signs, sign by sign
The Sun is not the same length of time in every sign: about 31 days in Cancer and under 30 in Capricorn, so a fair count expects a few more of the summer signs. The mark is that share of the year.
- Cancer8.8%, chance gives 8.6%
- Leo8.7%, chance gives 8.6%
- Virgo8.7%, chance gives 8.3%
- Aries8.5%, chance gives 8.3%
- Gemini8.5%, chance gives 8.5%
- Libra8.5%, chance gives 8.3%
- Pisces8.4%, chance gives 8.5%
- Taurus8.3%, chance gives 8.5%
- Aquarius8.2%, chance gives 8.1%
- Scorpio7.8%, chance gives 8.2%
- Sagittarius7.8%, chance gives 8.1%
- Capricorn7.8%, chance gives 8.1%
The four elements
- Fire Suns25.0%chance gives 25.0%
- Earth Suns24.8%chance gives 24.9%
- Air Suns25.2%chance gives 24.9%
- Water Suns25.0%chance gives 25.3%
A quarter each, almost to the decimal: fire, earth, air and water are as famous as one another.
Field by field
The most and least common Sun sign in each field. A field of a few hundred swings more by chance than the whole list, so a sign ahead by a few points is noise: none of these spreads is more than chance would give.
| Field | People | Most common | Least |
|---|---|---|---|
| Music | 1,080 | Cancer 9.8% | Leo 7.2% |
| Film and TV | 1,563 | Leo 10.4% | Sagittarius 7.2% |
| K-pop | 106 | Sagittarius 12.3% | Leo 5.7% |
| Sport | 610 | Virgo 10.3% | Capricorn 5.6% |
| Creators | 195 | Sagittarius 11.8% | Scorpio 5.6% |
| Comedy | 121 | Aries 12.4% | Capricorn 1.7% |
| Leaders and royals | 380 | Libra 10.0% | Taurus 6.6% |
| Legends | 1,112 | Libra 9.5% | Pisces 7.3% |
| Writers | 386 | Gemini 9.6% | Scorpio 6.7% |
| Business | 164 | Pisces 13.4% | Taurus 3.0% |
| Fashion | 130 | Aries 11.5% | Scorpio 5.4% |
Moon signs, and the pairs
The Moon changes sign every two to three days, so it is counted only for the 3,355 people whose Moon held one sign all day. Cancer leads, at 9.2% against one in twelve; the spread is within what chance gives.
- Cancer9.2%, chance gives 8.3%
- Virgo9.0%, chance gives 8.3%
- Aquarius8.9%, chance gives 8.3%
- Aries8.5%, chance gives 8.3%
- Taurus8.5%, chance gives 8.3%
- Capricorn8.3%, chance gives 8.3%
- Sagittarius8.3%, chance gives 8.3%
- Libra8.3%, chance gives 8.3%
- Leo8.0%, chance gives 8.3%
- Scorpio8.0%, chance gives 8.3%
- Pisces7.7%, chance gives 8.3%
- Gemini7.3%, chance gives 8.3%
Of the 144 pairs of Sun and Moon, the most common among the famous:
- Leo Sun, Libra Moon: 37 people
- Virgo Sun, Virgo Moon: 34 people
- Libra Sun, Sagittarius Moon: 34 people
- Cancer Sun, Scorpio Moon: 34 people
- Taurus Sun, Aquarius Moon: 34 people
- Virgo Sun, Aries Moon: 34 people
How it was counted
5,944 famous people with a page on this site, chosen by how often their Wikipedia pages are read: musicians, actors, athletes, leaders, writers, creators and more, living and not. Each Sun and Moon sign is measured from NASA JPL’s ephemeris for the date of birth. Birth times are not held, so the 205 people born on a day the Sun changed sign are left out of its count rather than guessed.
The Sun’s baseline is the share of the year it spends in each sign; birth seasons differ by country and are not allowed for. A spread counts as more than chance when a chi-square test puts it past one in a hundred (the Sun’s reads 4.1 on eleven degrees of freedom, where 24.7 is that line). Venus and Mars are left out: their time in each sign changes year to year, and no plain baseline is fair to them.
To cite this page: Which zodiac sign has the most famous people?, Under Your Stars, https://underyourstars.com/numbers/most-famous-sign
And your sky?
Your Sun, Moon and rising, the famous people who share them, and an analysis written from your own sky.