List of Famous people who are 56

Jeffrey Stuart Skoll, OC is a Canadian engineer, billionaire internet entrepreneur and film producer. He was the first employee and subsequently first president of eBay, eventually using the wealth this gave him to become a philanthropist, particularly through the Skoll Foundation, and his media company Participant Media. He founded an investment firm, Capricorn Investment Group, soon after and currently serves as its chairman. Born in Montreal, Quebec, he graduated from University of Toronto in 1987 and left Canada to attend Stanford University's business school in 1993.

Grigory Anatolyevich Kiriyenko is a Russian fencer, who won two gold Olympic medals in the team sabre competition: at the 1992 Summer Olympics in Barcelona and at the 1996 Summer Olympics in Atlanta.

Susanne Albers is a German theoretical computer scientist and professor of computer science at the Department of Informatics of the Technical University of Munich. She is a recipient of the Otto Hahn Medal and the Leibniz Prize.

Abdourahman A. Waberi is a novelist, essayist, poet, academic and short-story writer from Djibouti.

Jana Tichá is a Czech astronomer and discoverer of minor planets. She studied at the University of Economics in Prague and graduated in 1987. In 1992 she was selected for the position of a director of the Kleť Observatory.

Marie Krarup Soelberg is a Danish politician, who is a member of the Folketing for the Danish People's Party. She was elected into parliament in the 2011 Danish general election.

Dan Abnett is an English comic book writer and novelist. He has been a frequent collaborator with fellow writer Andy Lanning, and is known for his work on books for both Marvel Comics, and their UK imprint, Marvel UK, since the 1990s, and also 2000 AD. He has also contributed to DC Comics titles, and his Warhammer Fantasy and Warhammer 40,000 novels and graphic novels for Games Workshop's Black Library now run to several dozen titles and have sold over two million copies. In 2009 he released his first original fiction novels through Angry Robot books.

Marjo Tuulevi Matikainen-Kallström is a politician and former Finnish cross-country skier.