List of Famous people who born in 1953

Laurie MacDonald is an American film producer. She is married to Walter F. Parkes. MacDonald and Parkes helped build the original DreamWorks SKG, where Parkes served as the head of its motion picture division. After their time at DreamWorks, they founded their own production company, Parkes + MacDonald.

William Preston Graves is a former American politician who was the 43rd Governor of Kansas from 1995 until 2003.

Frithjof Schmidt is a German politician and member of the Alliance '90/The Greens group in the Bundestag. Between 2004 and 2009, he served as Member of the European Parliament for Alliance '90/The Greens, part of the European Greens.

John Edward Lambert is an American former professional basketball player born in Berkeley, California. In high school at Berkeley, he played basketball and was a member of the singing group called The State Champs, which included Glenn Burke, a professional baseball player. In 2007 he was inducted into the school's new Athletic Hall of Fame.

John Dugan is an American actor. He is best known for his role in The Texas Chain Saw Massacre (1974) and Texas Chainsaw 3D (2013) as Grandpa Sawyer. He also had a cameo appearance in the fourth installment of that series, Texas Chainsaw Massacre: The Next Generation.

Hiroshi Kaneda is a Japanese astronomer and discoverer of minor planets from Sapporo, in the northernmost prefecture of Japan.

Piero Ceccarini is an Italian former football referee. He is mostly known for a controversial decision he made during a match in Turin between Juventus and Inter on 26 April 1998.