The Ox is the sign of prosperity through fortitude and hard work. As one might guess, such people are dependable, calm, and modest. Like his animal namesake, the Ox is unswervingly patient, tireless in his work, and capable of enduring any amount of hardship without complaint.
The Ox person needs peace and quiet to work through his/her ideas, and when he/she has set his/her mind on something it is hard for him/her to be convinced otherwise. The Ox person has a very logical mind and is extremely systematic in whatever he/she does, even without imagination. These people speak little but are extremely intelligent. When necessary, they are articulate and eloquent.
The Ox is not extravagant, and the thought of living off credit cards or being in debt makes him/her nervous. The possibility of taking a serious risk could cause the Ox sleepless nights.
Ox people are truthful and sincere, and the idea of wheeling and dealing in a competitive world is distasteful to them. They are rarely driven by the prospect of financial gain. These people are always welcome because of their honesty and patience. They have many friends, who appreciate the fact that the Ox people are wary of new trends, although every now and then they can be encouraged to try something new.
It is important to remember that the Ox people are sociable and relaxed when they feel secure, but occasionally a dark cloud looms over such people and they engage all the trials of the whole world and seek solutions for them.
Ox Attributes
Zodiac Location: 2nd Ruling hours: 1am-3am Direction: North Northeast Season and month: Winter, January Gemstone: Onyx Roughly equivalent western sign: Capricorn Polarity : Yin Countries: Switzerland, India, Cuba, Yemen, Finland, Ukraine
Celebrities born in the year of ox
Metal Oxen
Abdullah II of Jordan
Andy Lau, actor and singer
Andy Taylor, British musician
Ann Coulter, American author, political commentator and attorney
Barack Obama, American politician
Ben Johnson, Canadian athlete
Boy George, British musician and producer
Carl Lewis, American athlete
Charles Lindbergh, American aviator
Clark Gable, American actor
Commodus, Roman emperor
Dan Marino, American football player
Daniel Webster, American statesman
Dennis Rodman, American basketball player and actor
Diana, Princess of Wales
Eddie Murphy, American actor and comedian
Edward VII of the United Kingdom
El Greco, Cretian painter, sculptor and architect
Enrico Fermi, Italian physicist, Nobel Prize laureate
Enya, Irish singer and songwriter
Gary Cooper, American actor
George Clooney, American actor
Georges Clemenceau, French statesman
Grand Duchess Anastasia of Russia
Henry VI of England
Herodes Atticus, Greek rhetoritician
Hirohito, Japanese emperor
Jennifer Jason Leigh, American actress
Jim Carrey, Canadian actor and comedian
Langston Hughes, American writer
Laurence Fishburne, American actor
Leo I, East Roman Emperor
Linus Pauling, American chemist, recipient of the Nobel Prize in Chemistry and Peace
Liu Bei, founder of the Shu Kingdom of China
Lothar Matthäus, German footballer
Louis Armstrong, American jazz musician
Marlene Dietrich, German actress
Marquise de Pompadour, mistress of King Louis XV of France
Meg Ryan, American actress
Melissa Etheridge, American musician
Oliver Wendell Holmes Jr., U.S. Supreme Court Justice
Peter Jackson, New Zealand film director
Pierre de Fermat, French mathematician
Qin Shi Huang, Chinese emperor
Shaka Zulu, King of the Zulu people
Theodosius II, East Roman Emperor
Tom Araya, Chilean-born musician
Walt Disney, American animator and film producer
Werner Heisenberg, German physicist, Nobel Prize laureate
William James, American psychologist
Zeppo Marx, American comedian
Water Oxen
Aishwarya Rai, Indian actress
Albert Camus, French writer, Nobel Prize laureate
Albertus Magnus, German philosopher and theologian
Albrecht Kossel, German physician, recipient of the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine
Arno Schmidt, German author
Burt Lancaster, American actor
Carson Daly, American talk show host
Cecil Rhodes, English businessman
Corey Taylor, American musician
David Blaine, American magician
Faith Evans, American singer
François Rabelais, French writer
Gerald Ford, 38th President of the United States
Gretchen Wilson, American singer
Hannibal of Carthage, later a distinguished military commander
Heidi Klum, German model
Hendrik Lorentz, Dutch physicist, Nobel Prize laureate
Henry II of England
Henry IV of France
Jason "Wee Man" Acuña, American entertainer
Jennifer Esposito, American actress
Jesse Owens, American athlete
Jimmy Hoffa, American labor leader with ties to the Mafia
Justus Jonas, German protestant reformer
Kate Beckinsale, English actress
Kate Moss, English model
Marcus Ulpius Traianus, Roman emperor
Maximinus Thrax, Roman emperor
Menachem Begin, Prime Minister of Israel, recipient of the Nobel Peace Prize
Mike Smith, American musician
Nas, American rapper
Natalie Appleton, Canadian singer
Neve Campbell, Canadian actress
Oleg Cassini, American entertainer
Oscar De La Hoya, American boxer
Paracelsus, Swiss physician and scientist
Pharrell Williams, American musician and producer
Plato, Greek philosopher
Preston Lacy, American entertaine
Ptolemy I, later founder of the Ptolemaic dynasty
Tori Spelling, American actress
Monica Lewinsky, White House intern
Sam Houston, President of the Republic of Texas
Shannon Elizabeth, American actress
Stephen F. Austin, American pioneer
Tempestt Bledsoe, American actress
Tricia Helfer, Canadian actress and model
Vincent van Gogh, Dutch painter
Vivien Leigh, British actress
Wilhelm Ostwald, German chemist, Nobel Prize laureate
William Casey, American Central Intelligence Agency director
Willy Brandt, Chancellor of Germany, recipient of the Nobel Peace Prize
Wood Oxen
Albert Medwin, American inventor
Alessandro Volta, Italian physicist
Alexis de Tocqueville, French historian
Angela Lansbury, American actress
Archibald Bower, Scottish historian
Barbara Bush, First Lady of the United States
BB King, American blues musician
Benjamin Guggenheim, American businessman
Bill Haley, American musician
Carlos Castaneda, Brazilian-born mystic
Charles G. Dawes, Vice President of the United States, recipient of the Nobel Peace Prize
Ciara, American singer
Dante, Italian writer
Dick Van Dyke, American actor
Diocles, who would become the Roman Emperor Diocletian
Emperor Guangwu of Han China
Erich Ludendorff, German general
Fanny Mendelssohn, German composer and pianist
George V of the United Kingdom
George Berkeley, English philosopher
George Frideric Handel, German composer
Giovanni Domenico Cassini, Italian astronomer and engineer
Giuseppe Mazzini, Italian patriot, statesman, and writer
Gore Vidal, American writer
Hans Christian Andersen, Danish writer
Heraclitus of Ephesus, Greek philosopher
Jack Osbourne, English actor
Jacqueline Pascal, French child prodigy and sister of Blaise Pasca
Jan van Eyck, Flemish painter
Johan de Witt, Dutch politician
Johann Gottfried Koehler, German astronomer
Johann Sebastian Bach, German composer
John Gay, English writer
Joseph Smith, Jr., American religious leader, founder of Mormonism
Johnny Carson, American comedian and television host
Keira Knightley, English actress
Malcolm X, American civil rights activist
Marcus Licinius Crassus, Roman politician
Margaret Thatcher, Prime Minister of the United Kingdom
Mahathir bin Mohamad, Former Prime Minister of Malaysia
Michelle Trachtenberg, American actress
Mischa Barton, British-born American actress
Peter Sellers, English comedian and actor
Philipp Scheidemann, Chancellor of Germany
Pol Pot, Cambodian Khmer Rouge leader
Publius Cornelius Scipio Africanus Major, one of the Greatest Roman generals and statesmen
Raven Symone, American actress
Rex Goudie, singer
Riza Abbasi, Persian painter and calligrapher
Robert Kennedy, American politician and Attorney General of the United States
Rudyard Kipling, British writer, Nobel Prize laureate
Sammy Davis Jr., American singer, dancer, musician, and actor
Sandro Botticelli, Italian painter
Sarah Hughes, American athlete
Soupy Sales, American comedian
Warren G. Harding, 29th President of the United States
Wayne Rooney, English football player
William F. Buckley, Jr., American journalist, author, and commentator
Zachary Hanson, American musician
Zu Chongzhi, Chinese mathematician
Fire Oxen
André Maginot, French politician
Anthony Hopkins, Welsh actor
Bill Cosby, American actor and comedian
Charles V of France
Colin Powell, U.S. Secretary of State
Dustin Hoffman, American actor
Edmund Andros, English governor in North America
Henry David Thoreau, American philosopher
Hermann Hesse, German-born writer, Nobel Prize laureate
Hunter S. Thompson, American writer
Jack Nicholson, American actor
Jane Fonda, American actress and social activist
Juan Carlos I of Spain
Madeleine Albright, U.S. Secretary of State
Merle Haggard, American musician
Metastasio, Italian poet
Morgan Freeman, American actor
Philetaerus, founder of the Attalid dynasty of Pergamum in Anatolia
Publius Ovidius Naso (Ovid), Roman poet
Richard the Lionheart
Robert Redford, American actor
Saddam Hussein, Iraqi dictator
Saint Gregory the Illuminator, founder and patron saint of the Armenian Church
Tung Chee Hwa, Former Chief Executive of Hong Kong
Theodor Mommsen, German writer, Nobel Prize laureate
Tiberius Gracchus, Roman politician
Warren Beatty, American actor and director
Vladimir Ashkenazy, Russian pianist
Yuri Senkevich, Russian cosmonaut
Earth Oxen
Adolf Hitler, Austrian dictator of Nazi Germany
Alan Menken, American composer
Alla Pugacheva, Best-selling Russian musician
Arsene Wènger, French football manager
Arthur Wellesley, 1st Duke of Wellington, British general and Prime Minister of the United Kingdom
Benjamin Netanyahu, Prime Minister of Israel
Bernard Arnault, French billionaire
Bill O'Reilly, American journalist
Billy Joel, American musician
Bruce Springsteen, American singer and songwriter
Charlie Chaplin, English actor and film director
Chester A. Arthur, 21st President of the United States
Chris Latta, American entertainer
Edwin Hubble, American astronomer
Ferdinand III, Grand Duke of Tuscany
Friedrich August Kekulé von Stradonitz, German chemist
Gerrit Graham, American actor
Geronimo, Apache leader
Gilles Villeneuve, Canadian race car driver
Gloria Gaynor, American singer
Guru Nanak Dev, founder of Sikhism
Hank Williams Jr., American singer
Jawaharlal Nehru, Prime Minister of India
Jeff Bridges, American actor
Jim Sheridan, Irish film director
Kurt Tucholsky, German-born journalist and satirist
Léon Brillouin, French physicist
Levi Strauss, American clothing designer
Ludwig Wittgenstein, Austrian-born philosopher
Mark Knopfler, English guitarist, Dire Straits
Martin Heidegger, German philosopher
Morgan Fairchild, American actress
Napoleon Bonaparte, Emperor of France
Nestor Makhno, Ukrainian anarchist
Niccolò Machiavelli, Italian historian and political author
