List of Famous people who are 55

Mercan Dede, also known as DJ Arkin Allen, is a Turkish Canadian composer, ney and bendir player, DJ and producer. He divides his time between Turkey, Europe and North America. He is a world music artist, playing a fusion of traditional acoustic Turkish and other oriental musics with electronic sounds.

Bahadir Kaleagasi is a Turkish writer and expert in international relations, European politics, and business strategy. He is currently President of the Bosphorus Institute and a member of BusinessEurope's executive bureau. From 2017 to 2020, he was the Secretary-General (CEO) of TUSIAD – the Turkish Industry & Business Association. His research focuses on the economic relationships between the European Union, the United States, and Turkey.

Shurooq Amin is a Kuwaiti painter and poet.

Nurullah Sağlam is a Turkish football coach.

Yang Erche Namu is a Chinese writer and singer of Mosuo ethnicity.

Hari Gopalakrishnan is an Indian film director best known for his action and masala films in Tamil cinema. He made his directorial debut with Thamizh (2002). He later directed films such as Saamy (2003), Kovil (2004), Ayya (2005), Thaamirabharani (2007), Vel (2007) and the Singam film series.

Kais Yâakoubi or Kais Yakoubi is a Tunisian former footballer and a current manager, who last managed Al-Ittihad Aleppo.

Erhan Tabakoğlu is a Turkish professor of medicine at Trakya University. He was elected as the new rector of the university on 12 July 2016 by a majority vote, and at the end of July the election was confirmed. He defeated the incumbent rector Yener Yörük, who was also a candidate. In 2020, Tabakoglu was confirmed as rector for a second term until 2024. He is of Albanian origin.

Robert Zollitsch is a composer and producer of new Chinese music. He is known as Lao Luo (simplified Chinese: 老锣; traditional Chinese: 老鑼; pinyin: Lǎo Luó, literally "Old Ro/Gong" in China, and established himself as an expert of traditional Asian music and a very important composer of contemporary Chinese art music.

David Huang is a Taiwanese politician.