List of Famous people who born in 1953

Daniel Thomas Barry is an American engineer, scientist, and a retired NASA astronaut. He was a contestant on the CBS reality television program Survivor: Panama, as well as on BattleBots on ABC. He was at Singularity University from 2009 to 2012, where he was co-chair of the Faculty of Artificial Intelligence and Robotics and the chair of the graduate summer program. He is also a co-founder of Fellow Robots, a telepresence robotics company, and the founder and president of Denbar Robotics.

John McGlynn is a Scottish actor and musician. His most notable role was that of vet Calum Buchanan in the British television series All Creatures Great and Small between January 1988 and September 1989. He also featured as DI Tom Adams in the BBC crime thriller series Silent Witness in series 1, 1996.

Vedat Bilgin is a Turkish sociologist, academician, bureaucrat, writer and the current Turkish Minister of Labor and Social Security.

David G. Heckel is an American entomologist.