Famous People Born with the Moon in Leo
Ansel Adams, the American photographer and environmentalist born February 20, 1902, leads the 169 cards on this page, each a roster person with the Moon in Leo at birth. The TropicalAstro roster takes dates and places from Wikidata and ranks people by English Wikipedia readership, so it favors the most-read lives over any fair sample of births.
A roster row stores no hour, and the Moon, spending only about 2.3 days in each sign, changes sign at some point on roughly 44% of calendar dates. A name counts here only when the Moon was already in Leo as the birth date began, locally, and still there as it ended, which the date alone settles for about 56% of births, a little over half. A sourced time in the databank overrides the date. Readers with a known birth time can let the calculator place a Moon born on a crossing day.
Politics outnumbers sports on this list, 25 to 18
Across the roster, sports is the second-largest field after entertainment, ahead of music and politics. Among Leo Moons it slips to fourth: 18 sports figures, 11% of the page, behind 22 music entries and 25 from politics. The political share is 15% here against 12% roster-wide, about five people more than the roster's rate would give.
In binomial standard deviations, the political surplus comes to 1.3. The wider gap runs the other way: set against its own roster rate, sports falls 2.1 deviations short, though with ten fields compared at once, chance alone fairly often leaves one of them that far off. Gordon Brown, born February 20, 1951, and David Cameron, born October 9, 1966, British prime ministers in turn from 2007 and 2010, hold two of the political cards.
26 births in the 1940s, the roster's fourth-busiest decade, now in first place
By size on the roster, the top four birth decades run 1960s, 1970s, 1980s, then 1940s. This list reverses that order exactly. Its 1940s births number 26, ahead of 24 from the 1980s, 21 from the 1970s and 19 from the 1960s, so that one decade supplies 15% of the cards. Two of them share a date: Paul McCartney and the film critic Roger Ebert were both born on June 18, 1942.
Nothing here calls for a cause. Spread 169 people over the 17 decades that hold any of them, the 1860s holding none, and most columns stay in single figures, where a few birthdays redraw them. The 1890s hold seven, as many as the 1900s and 1910s combined, though the roster has fewer 1890s births than either.
Demand order from Ansel Adams down, and the three cards that print a Moon degree
The order is the roster's demand score: monthly English Wikipedia page views on a log scale, nudged up by a set amount for natives or nationals of four countries, the US, Britain, India and the Philippines. That nudge puts Adams ahead of the footballer Cristiano Ronaldo, born February 5, 1985, whose article draws more readers; Elizabeth II, born April 21, 1926, is third. Only three cards print a degree, Elizabeth II's 12°07′, David Bowie's 3°49′ and Jawaharlal Nehru's 10°24′, since that takes a sourced time while the Moon covers some 13 degrees a day.
David Bowie's card reads 3°49′. The Moon was still in Cancer at the midnight that opened his birth date in London and crossed into Leo in the small hours, so a date-only row would have kept him off every Moon list. Angela Bowie's 1993 memoir puts his birth at nine in the morning, after the crossing, and Kevin Cann's 2010 chronology gives the same hour; Cann's earlier 1983 book had said "just after midnight", which would leave this Moon in Cancer. McCartney has a chart page but no printed degree: the 2 p.m. hour used there and the 2 a.m. alternatives listed against it both fall in Leo, yet they set the Moon more than a degree apart, and a card shows a degree only when the competing hours agree that closely.
Questions about the Moon in Leo
Are Leo Moons underrepresented among famous people?
This roster holds 15.6 fewer than the hourly forecast, about 1.2 binomial standard deviations. Gaps that size turn up by chance, and a list picked by page views was never drawn by lot from all births, so the shortfall cannot settle the question either way.
Why is David Bowie on this list?
Two sources give 9 a.m., and that hour falls after the Moon entered Leo on his birth date; the date alone would have left his Moon sign open.
Which sign is my Moon in if it entered Leo on my birthday?
The hour decides; the birth chart calculator places the Moon for your exact time and birthplace.
How does traditional astrology treat a Moon in Leo?
As a Moon in a fixed fire sign ruled by the Sun, with neither rulership nor exaltation there (see the essential dignities calculator). Modern writers add warmth, pride and a wish for recognition, which no count of birth dates can test.