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20 Famous Aquarius Women

Aquarius women shine with a unique and captivating brilliance. Born between January 20 and February 18, these extraordinary individuals possess an energy and aura that sets them apart from the crowd. The women born under the Aquarius sign are known for their progressive thinking, their independent spirit, and their humanitarianism.

These Aquarius women have achieved significant progress across various industries from music to entertainment to leadership and philanthropy. They are often seen as trailblazers in their industries who are unafraid to enter into uncharted waters.   Aquarius women are also known for their creativity, their intelligence, and their wit. In this article, we feature 20 of these famous Aquarius women.

1. Oprah Winfrey 

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Oprah Winfrey born on January 29, 1966, is a Media mogul, talk show host, actress, producer, and philanthropist.  She is best known for her talk show, The Oprah Winfrey Show, broadcast from Chicago, which ran in national syndication for 25 years, from 1986 to 2011.

Oprah was named the Queen of All Media and was the richest African American of the 20th century. She was once the world’s only black billionaire. By 2007, she was often ranked as the most influential woman in the world. Read more Top 15 Amazing Facts about Oprah Winfrey. 

2. Emma Roberts

Emma Roberts born on February 10, 1991, is an American actress and singer. Known for her work in film and television projects of the horror and thriller genres, she has received various accolades, including a Young Artist Award, an MTV Movie and TV Award, and a ShoWest Award.

3. Ellen DeGeneres

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Ellen DeGeneres born on January 26, 1958, is an comedian, talk show host and producer. She starred in the sitcom Ellen from 1994 to 1998, which earned her a Primetime Emmy Award for The Puppy Episode.  

Ellen also hosted the syndicated television talk show, The Ellen DeGeneres Show from 2003 to 2022, for which she received 33 Daytime Emmy Awards.

4. Ariel Winter

Ariel Winter born on January 28, 1998, is an American actress. She starred as Alex Dunphy in the ABC comedy series Modern Family, for which she and her co-stars won four consecutive Screen Actors Guild Awards for Outstanding Ensemble in a Comedy Series. 

Winter also voiced the titular character in the Disney Junior show Sofia the First and Penny Peterson in the 2014 animated film Mr Peabody and Sherman.

5. Mischa Barton

Mischa Barton born on  24 January 1986 is a British-born American film, television, and stage actress. She began her career on the stage, appearing in Tony Kushner’s Slavs! and took the lead in James Lapine’s Twelve Dreams at New York City’s Lincoln Center. 

Barton made her screen debut with a guest appearance on the American soap opera All My Children in 1995, and voicing a character on the Nickelodeon cartoon series KaBlam! In 1996– 1997.

6. Alicia Keys

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Alicia Keys born on January 25, 1981, is a world-renown singer, songwriter, and actress. Keys has sold millions of records worldwide, making her one of the world’s best-selling music artists.

Keys has received numerous accolades in her career, including 15 Grammy Awards, 17 NAACP Image Awards, 12 ASCAP Awards, and an award from the Songwriters Hall of Fame and National Music Publishers Association.  Read more little known facts about Alicia Keys. 

7. Shakira 

Shakira born on February 2, 1977, is a Colombian singer, songwriter, dancer, businesswoman, and philanthropist. Shakira has been referred to as the Queen of Latin Music and is noted for her musical versatility. 

With a catalogue of 145 songs, Shakira has sold over 95 million records, making her one of the best-selling music artists of all time.  For her philanthropic work with her Barefoot Foundation and her contributions to music, she received the Latin Recording Academy Person of the Year and Harvard Foundation Artist of the Year awards in 2011.

8. Kerry Washington

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Kerry Washington born on January 31, 1977, is an American actress. She gained wide public recognition for starring as crisis management expert Olivia Pope in the ABC drama series Scandal.

Time magazine included Washington in its Time 100 list of most influential people in 2014. In 2018, Forbes named her the eighth highest-paid television actress. Washington has won a Primetime Emmy Award and five NAACP Image Awards, including The President’s Award.

9. Natalie Dormer

Natalie Dormer born on February 11, 1982, is an English actress. She earned international attention and acclaim for playing Margaery Tyrell on the HBO series Game of Thrones and Cressida in the last two parts of The Hunger Games franchise, which rank as her highest-grossing films. 

Dormer’s accolades include winning an Empire Award and receiving nominations for a Critics’ Choice Award, two Gemini Awards, and two Screen Actors Guild Awards.

10. Megan Thee Stallion

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Megan born on February 15, 1995, is an American rapper, singer, and songwriter. Megan first garnered attention when videos of her freestyling became popular on social media platforms such as Instagram.

Throughout her career, Megan Thee Stallion has received several accolades, including six BET Awards, five BET Hip Hop Awards, four American Music Awards, two MTV Video Music Awards, a Billboard Women in Music Award, and three Grammy Awards.  Megan became the second female rapper to win Best New Artist at the Grammy’s,  after Lauryn Hill in 1999.

11. Virginia Woolf 

Virginia Woolf, born on 25 January 1882 was an English writer. She is considered one of the most important modernist 20th-century authors and a pioneer in the use of stream of consciousness as a narrative device.

Woolf became one of the central subjects of the 1970s movement of feminist criticism. Her works, translated into more than 50 languages, have attracted attention and widespread commentary for inspiring feminism. A large body of writing is dedicated to her life and work. She has been the subject of plays, novels and films. Read more incredible facts about Virginia Woolf. 

12. Yoko Ono 

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Yoko Ono born on  February 18, 1933,  is a Japanese multimedia artist, singer, songwriter, and peace activist. Her work also encompasses performance art and filmmaking.

Ono began a career in popular music in 1969, forming the Plastic Ono Band with Lennon and producing a number of avant-garde music albums in the 1970s. She achieved commercial and critical success in 1980 with the chart-topping album Double Fantasy, a collaboration with her husband Lennon that was released three weeks before his murder, winning the Grammy Award for Album of the Year. 

13. Jennifer Aniston

Jennifer Aniston born on February 11, 1969, is an American actress, producer, and businesswoman. She rose to international fame for her role as Rachel Green on the television sitcom Friends from 1994 to 2004, for which she earned Primetime Emmy, Golden Globe, and Screen Actors Guild awards. She has become one of the world’s highest-paid actresses.

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Â鶹APP Hilton born on February 17, 1981, is an American media personality, businesswoman, socialite, model, singer, actress, and DJ. Hilton first attracted tabloid attention in the late 1990s, when she became a fixture in NYC’s social scene, and ventured into modelling at age 19, signing with Donald Trump’s agency Trump Model Management. 

Hilton has parlayed her media fame into numerous business endeavours. Under her company, she has produced content for broadcast media, launched a variety of product lines, and opened a chain of self-branded boutiques worldwide, as well as an urban beach club in the Philippines. Her perfume line alone has brought in over US$2.5 billion in revenue to date.

15. Mena Suvari

Mena Suvari born on February 13, 1979 is an American actress, producer, fashion designer and model. After beginning her career as a model and guest-starring on several television shows, she made her film debut in the 1997 drama Nowhere.

Suvari has been a model for Lancôme cosmetics and print ads for Lancôme Â鶹APP Adaptîve, as well as a long-time supporter and activist for the Starlight Children’s Foundation and the African Medical and Research Foundation. 

16. Kelly Rowland 

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Kelly Rowland born on February 11, 1981, is a world renown musician. She rose to fame in the late 1990s as a member of Destiny’s Child, one of the world’s best-selling girl groups of all time. 

Following the disbanding of Destiny’s Child in 2006, Rowland released her second studio album, Ms Kelly in 2007. Throughout her career, Rowland has sold over 40 million records as a solo artist, and a further 60 million records with Destiny’s Child. Her work has earned her several awards and nominations, including five Grammy Awards, one Billboard Music Award, and two Soul Train Music Awards. Read more on the 50 best black female singers of all time. 

 17. Gertrude Stein 

Gertrude Stein born on February 3, 1874, was an American novelist, poet, playwright, and art collector. 

Her activities during World War II have been the subject of analysis and commentary. As a Jew living in Nazi-occupied France, Stein may have only been able to sustain her lifestyle as an art collector, and indeed to ensure her physical safety, through the protection of the powerful Vichy government official and Nazi collaborator Bernard Faÿ. 

18. Shakuntala Devi 

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Shakuntala Devi was an Indian mental calculator and writer, popularly known as the Human-Computer. Her talent earned her a place in the 1982 edition of The Guinness Book of World Records. 

However, the certificate for the record was given posthumously on 30 July 2020, despite Devi achieving her world record on 18 June 1980 at Imperial College, London.

 19. Yara Shahidi

Yara Shahidi born on February 10, 2000, is an American actress. She gained recognition for her starring role as the oldest daughter, Zoey Johnson on the sitcom Black-ish and its spin-off series Grown-ish. Her film credits include Imagine That,  Smallfoot and the lead role in The Sun Is Also a Star. Time included her on The 30 Most Influential Teens of 2016 list.

20. Kathryn Newton

Kathryn Newton born on February 8, 1997, is an American actress. She is known for her starring roles as Louise Brooks in the CBS comedy series Gary Unmarried, Abigail Carlson in the HBO mystery drama series Big Little Lies, and Allie Pressman in the Netflix teen drama series The Society. She is also known for portraying the older versions of Claire Novak in The CW dark fantasy series Supernatural, and Joanie Clark in the AMC period drama series Halt and Catch Fire.

In conclusion and as highlighted from the examples in the article, these women have been trailblazers in their various fields. From Oprah who is the talk show queen, to Ellen who has received multiple Emmy awards for her show and Devi who was literally known as a human computer, we can see the uniformity of progressive thinking and independence shown by these Aquarius women.