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Cancer celebrities

Cancer is the cardinal water sign and the only sign ruled by the Moon. The Sun enters it at the June solstice. It is associated with home, memory and protection: the sign that reads a room before anyone speaks and looks after its own. Astrologers read it as tender behind a guarded front. Its symbol is the crab.

In 2026 the Sun is in Cancer from 21 June to 22 July (UTC). The dates move by a day from year to year, which is why a birthday at either end needs the year and the hour to settle its sign.

StarMap has birth charts for 483 well-known people with the Sun in Cancer, listed here with the best known first. 37 more were born on a day the Sun entered or left Cancer and are left out, because the sign then depends on a birth time StarMap does not have.

Nelson Mandela and George W. Bush were both born with the Sun in Cancer.Is your Sun in Cancer?Draw your own birth chart, free

Famous Cancer Suns

All 483 Cancer Suns, A to Z

Cancer horoscopes

Cancer birthdays, day by day

Signs are computed from each person’s birth date and place with the astronomy-engine ephemeris, checked against Swiss Ephemeris. Birth data comes from Wikidata; a Moon sign is shown only when it holds for the whole birth date, and a rising sign only with a verified birth time. StarMap is for entertainment and self-reflection.

Photo credits (95 photos from Wikimedia Commons)

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