List of Famous people who are 55

Wendy Kaplan is an actress who appeared in films, on television, and in theater.

Salvatore Antonio "Tony" Fratto was deputy assistant and deputy press secretary to former United States President George W. Bush.

Essam El-Gindy is an Egyptian chess Grandmaster and FIDE Trainer.

Susannah Doyle is an English actress, best known for her roles as Joy Merryweather in Drop The Dead Donkey and as Avril Burke in Ballykissangel.

Zhou Chengjian, is a Chinese businessman.

Marko Perković is a Croatian musician who has been the lead singer of the band Thompson since 1991.

David Alan Nicholls is an English novelist and screenwriter.

Timothy Patrick Herlihy is an American screen actor, film producer, screenwriter, and Broadway musical bookwriter.

Lutz Heilmann is a German politician of the left-wing party Die Linke. He was elected to the Bundestag in the 2005 federal election as a member of the party list in Schleswig-Holstein. Shortly thereafter it was revealed that he had worked for the Stasi from 1985 to 1990. Heilmann drew national and international media attention when he caused the website www.wikipedia.de to be blocked by a preliminary injunction on 13 November 2008. His Bundestag term ended in 2009, and he failed to be nominated for a second term.