List of Famous people who are 56

Hirokazu Yasuhara is a Japanese video game designer. He is best known for designing the gameplay and stages of the initial Sonic the Hedgehog video games for Sega Genesis in the 1990s, based on technical demos and engines programmed by Yuji Naka. Yasuhara stayed with Sega until the late 1990s. He then joined Naughty Dog, working on the Jak and Daxter series and Uncharted: Drake's Fortune, collaborating again with former Sega employee Mark Cerny. He was the senior design director at Namco Bandai Games America. In April 2012, Yasuhara joined Nintendo where he accepted a position at the Nintendo Software Technology division. In 2016 he joined Unity Technologies.

Lakshminarayanan Mahadevan FRS is a scientist of Indian origin, and is currently the Lola England de Valpine Professor of Applied Mathematics, Organismic and Evolutionary Biology and Physics at Harvard University. His work centers around understanding the organization of matter in space and time.

Bernardo Fernandes da Silva or simply Bernardo is a retired Brazilian football player. He is now a player agent. His son Bernardo Fernandes da Silva Junior is also a footballer.

Henri Pierre Albert Marie Beaufour is a French billionaire heir and businessman.

Maoupa Cedric Maake, known as The Wemmer Pan Killer, is a South African serial killer who was convicted of 27 murders but was suspected of killing many more.

Kaan Esener is a Turkish diplomat, current ambassador of Turkey to Council of Europe and former ambassador of Turkey to South Africa.