List of Famous people who born in 1953

Richard H. Scheller is the former Chief Science Officer & Head of Therapeutics at 23andMe and the former Executive Vice President of Research and Early Development at Genentech. He was a Professor at Stanford University from 1982 to 2001 before joining Genentech. He has been awarded the Alan T. Waterman Award in 1989, the W. Alden Spencer Award in 1993 and the NAS Award in Molecular Biology in 1997, won the 2010 Kavli Prize in Neuroscience with Thomas C. Südhof and James E. Rothman, and won the 2013 Albert Lasker Award for Basic Medical Research with Thomas Sudhof. He was also given the Life Sciences Distinguished Alumni Award from University of Wisconsin–Madison. He is a Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences and a Member of the National Academy of Sciences.

Hans Rinn is an East German former luger who competed from the early 1970s to the early 1980s. He won three medals at the Winter Olympics, including two gold and one bronze.

Philip Davis is an English actor, writer, and director.

Hans Robert Schöler is a molecular biologist and stem cell researcher. He is director at the Max Planck Institute for Molecular Biomedicine in Münster.

Bdale Garbee is an American computer specialist who works with GNU/Linux particularly Debian. He is also an amateur radio hobbyist (KB0G), and a member of AMSAT, Tucson Amateur Packet Radio, and the American Radio Relay League.

Ryosei Kokubun is Japanese academics and author. He is serving as the President, National Defense Academy of Japan since April 2012. Kokubun main interest is on Chinese politics, he had previously served as Dean, Faculty of Law and Politics of the Graduate School of Law in the Keio University from 2007 to 2012, President of Japan Association for Asian Studies from 2008 to 2012 and presently President of Japan Association of International Relations.