List of Famous people who are 56

Peter William Krause is an American television and film actor. He has played lead roles in multiple television series, portraying Casey McCall on Sports Night (1998–2000), Nate Fisher on Six Feet Under (2001–2005), Nick George on Dirty Sexy Money (2007–2009), Adam Braverman on Parenthood (2010–2015), Benjamin Jones on The Catch (2016–2017), and Bobby Nash on 9-1-1 (2018–present).

Guido Maria Kretschmer is a German fashion designer and television personality. He has worked as presenter and juror on programmes such as Shopping Queen.

Hikari Ōta is a Japanese television comedian.

Andreas Bovenschulte is a German lawyer and politician of the Social Democratic Party (SPD) who has been serving as the President of the Senate and Mayor of the city state of Bremen since 2019.

Melissa Suzanne McBride is an American actress and former casting director. McBride's breakout role was Carol Peletier on the AMC series The Walking Dead (2010–present). She has garnered critical acclaim and received multiple awards and nominations for her role on the show. Originally cast in a minor role, McBride's role expanded over time to a main cast member and as of 2020, she is the second billed cast member in the opening credits of the show, and one of only two cast members to appear in every season.

Maura Lynn Tierney is an American film and television actress. She is best known for her roles as Lisa Miller on the sitcom NewsRadio (1995–1999), Abby Lockhart on the medical drama ER (1999–2009), and Helen Solloway on the mystery drama The Affair (2014–2019), the last of which won her a Golden Globe Award for Best Supporting Actress – Series, Miniseries or Television Film.

Maria Schrader is a German actress, screenwriter, and director. She directed the award-winning 2007 film Love Life that was based on a novel by Zeruya Shalev and the 2020 Netflix miniseries Unorthodox, for which she won the Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Directing for a Limited Series. She also starred in the German international hit TV series Deutschland 83 (2015), known for being the first German-language series broadcast on US television.

Johanne Morton Whiley is an English radio DJ and television presenter. She was the host of the long-running weekday later weekend Jo Whiley Show on BBC Radio 1. She now currently presents her weekday evening Radio 2 show.

Yasuko Sawaguchi is a Japanese actress.

Antonio Carmona Amaya is a Spanish gypsy singer of flamenco. He also has French nationality. from the early 1980s, he was a member of the Spanish flamenco-fusion group Ketama. that he joined after main vocalist Ray Heredia left. The band also included José Soto also known as "Sorderita". Ketama in its latest set-up included Antonio Carmona as main vocalist along with his brother, Juan José Carmona Amaya known as "El Camborio", and his cousin, José Miguel Carmona Niño known as "Josemi".