Cancer celebrities: 25 famous people born under the sign of the crab

Can you taste the tears, hear the heartstrings pulling, and smell the codependency, kids? It can mean only one thing: from June 20 to July 21, 2025, the sun is shining into the shallows of Cancer.People born under the stars of the crab are intuitive, nurturing, and deeply protective of their soft underbellies and the select few to whom they devote themselves.Like the crab that represents them, Cancers play tough but are deeply empathetic and terribly tender under the shell.Ruled by the moon, its children are similarly subject to emotional waxing and waning.Read more about this cardinal water sign here and carry on to our list of celebrity crabs.The queen of nostalgia and swampland fairy tales, Lana Del Rey, revealed her sun and moon signs in the lyrics to “Chemtrails Over the Country Club.” Ruled by the moon and made of water, Cancers are conduits, a power made material in the celebrated actress Meryl Streep.Another expression of the fierce love and loyalty of the Cancer club is found in Solange Knowles, who famously defended the honor of her big sister Beyoncé by beating the s–t out of Jay-Z in an elevator.A self-aware crab and staunchly dreamy Cancer, Mindy Kaling writes, “I’m the kind of person who would rather get my hopes up really high and watch them get dashed to pieces than wisely keep my expectations at bay and hope they are exceeded.

This quality has made me a needy and theatrical friend, but has given me a spectacularly dramatic emotional life.”Cancer rules where the mammalian and the mystical conspire, and dearly departed crab Anthony Bourdain dedicated his life and work to illuminating that particular crossroads.Believing that we all seek to be fed and found in the same ways, he used food to illustrate that home is as much a flavor as a feeling.Cancers have a notoriously hard time letting go.

Nostalgic AF, they can’t help but recall the good times and gloss over the trash like Ariana “Thank You, Next” Grande.Cancer is the sign ...