List of Famous people who are 56

Yoshinori Yamaguchi is a Japanese politician and the current governor of Saga Prefecture located in Kyushu region of Japan.

Ilija Trojanow is a Bulgarian–German writer, translator and publisher.

Uta Pippig is a retired German Long-distance runner, and the first woman to officially win the Boston Marathon three consecutive times (1994–1996). She also won the Berlin Marathon three times ; the 1993 New York City Marathon; represented Germany at the Olympic Games in 1992 and 1996, and won a bronze medal at the 1991 World 15km Road Race Championship. Her marathon best of 2:21:45 set in Boston in 1994, made her the third-fastest female marathon runner in history at that time. She is a dual citizen of Germany and the United States.

Yury Valentinovich Lonchakov is a Russian former cosmonaut and a veteran of three space missions. He has spent 200 days in space and has conducted two career spacewalks.

Andreas Thom is a former German professional footballer who played as a forward for BFC Dynamo, Bayer Leverkusen, Celtic and Hertha BSC. He played 51 times for East Germany throughout the 1980s and played 10 times for the unified German national team in the early 1990s. He is now retired from playing and works as a youth coach at Hertha BSC.

Edwina Lau Chi-wai, PMSM is the head of the National Security Division of the Hong Kong Police Force, and also sits on the Committee for Safeguarding National Security.

Sonoko Kawai , married name Sonoko Gotō is a former Japanese singer. She was originally member number 12 of Onyanko Club.

Markus Grosskopf is a German musician and songwriter. He is best known as the bass guitarist, backing vocalist and founding member of power metal band Helloween.

Kim Bodnia is a Danish actor, writer, and director. He became widely known for his role as police detective Martin Rohde in the Scandinavian crime drama series The Bridge. He became internationally known for his lead role as the drug dealer "Frank" in Nicolas Winding Refn's 1996 directorial debut Pusher. Today he is best known as Konstantin in Phoebe Waller-Bridge's 2018 BBC America spy thriller TV series Killing Eve.

Khadija Benguenna is an Algerian journalist working in the Al Jazeera channel in Qatar. Born in Algeria in 1965, Khadija Benguenna graduated from the radio and television section of the Media Institute at the University of Algiers.