Famous People Born with the Sun in Taurus

Robert Pattinson (English actor and film producer; born May 13, 1986) belongs to the tallest column, the 51 people born in the 1980s, 16% of the page. The 1970s come next with 35, then the 1960s and the 1990s tie at 33 apiece; births from 1800 through 1899 add up to 40.

No decade gets an astronomical head start, because the Sun's Taurus weeks fall on nearly the same calendar dates each year. A column's height comes down to how many roster entries were born in that decade at all, plus counting noise, and the noise is sizable here: the 1980s margin over the 1970s is under twice the spread that chance alone puts between two independent tallies this large, short of the usual bar for calling a gap real.

Bars sort people by the Sun's Taurus degree at midday, local time, unless the databank has a timed chart for them, as it has for Elizabeth II, in which case the recorded hour sets it. The mean is 10.7 a bar. The tallest, 21°00′ to 22°00′, has 17 and the shortest, 1°00′ to 2°00′, has five, each about two Poisson standard deviations from that mean, typical for the extremes of 30 small counts.

A noon reading on a day the Sun spent wholly in Taurus cannot fall within half a day's travel of either boundary, so the two end bars draw on only part of their degree and should fill to about half the mean, near 5.3. The last holds six, in line with that. The first holds nine, high by less than two Poisson standard deviations, and Elizabeth II is the only card in its first half degree, put there by her recorded hour rather than by noon. Iker Casillas (Spanish soccer player; born May 20, 1981) holds the latest degree on the list.

Entertainment leads with 133 people, 41% of the page against 42% of the roster. Sports follow with 59, among them Carlos Alcaraz (Spanish tennis player; born May 5, 2003), one of eight entries born in the 2000s, and music is third with 51.

Applied to 321 people, the roster's sports rate of 16% gives about 53, so the page runs six over; music runs five over its own roster rate and entertainment two under. Each gap sits inside one standard deviation of a binomial count, so none of them is evidence that the sign steers anyone toward a field.

Taurus takes 8.5% of the year, a shade more than an equal twelfth (8.3%), because the Earth slows in its orbit as it nears its farthest point from the Sun in early July. Across 3,851 people with a settled Sun sign, that predicts 327; the page holds 321, 98% of the prediction.

Treat each entry as a loaded coin landing on Taurus at that rate, and most repeated runs would end more than six away from the prediction, so the shortfall points nowhere. Nor is the roster a random draw of births: it keeps, from a fixed list of occupations, the names with the heaviest English Wikipedia traffic, and the even-spread figure ignores how births bunch into certain months in most countries.

Cards follow the roster's demand score, built from a year of English Wikipedia page views with a small boost for people from the United States, India, the Philippines or the United Kingdom. Elizabeth II (Queen of the United Kingdom and the Commonwealth realms, 1952–2022; born April 21, 1926) comes first, David Attenborough (Natural history broadcaster and writer; born May 8, 1926) second.

Traditional astrology files Taurus as a fixed earth sign under Venus, where the Moon is exalted, and many modern astrologers link a Taurus Sun with patience and physical comfort. A count of 321 cards tests none of that: it records whose birth dates fell in the Sun's Taurus weeks, not what anyone born then is like. The Taurus page covers the tradition; the birth chart calculator places your own Sun.