List of Famous people who born in 1953

Bernat Vilaplana is a Spanish film editor. He is best known for his collaborations with J.A. Bayona and Guillermo del Toro, having worked with Bayona on The Impossible, A Monster Calls and Jurassic World: Fallen Kingdom and with del Toro on Pan's Labyrinth, Hellboy II: The Golden Army and Crimson Peak.

Ian Martin is an English comedy writer. Martin was a writer for the BAFTA-winning BBC series The Thick of It. He was famously hired as "swearing consultant" in 2005 by the show's creator, Armando Iannucci, for Series 1 of the political satire and went on to become a full member of the writing team. He won an Emmy for his writing across five series of Veep and was BAFTA nominated for co-writing The Death of Stalin.

Jon Cohen is an American novelist and screenwriter. As a screenwriter he is best known for his co-writing contribution to the Steven Spielberg-directed film Minority Report (2002).

Greer Shephard is an American television producer and director. She was an executive producer on the FX series Nip/Tuck. She is an executive producer on the TNT series, The Closer. Along with Michael M. Robin, Shephard created the Shephard/Robin production company which produces the Ryan Murphy-created Nip/Tuck and Popular. Shephard is an executive producer of TNT's The Closer spinoff series Major Crimes.

Greg McLean is an Australian film director, producer and writer. He rose to fame in 2005 with his debut feature film, Wolf Creek, creating one of Australia's most memorable and horrific characters, Mick Taylor. The long-awaited sequel to his first feature, Wolf Creek 2 was released February 2013. Mclean also wrote, directed and produced Rogue (2007) and was executive producer of Red Hill (2010) and Crawlspace (2012). He is also the co-author of two novels about the fictional character Mick Taylor; Wolf Creek: Origin and Wolf Creek: Desolation Game and the four-part comic book series Dark Axis: Secret Battles of WW2 and the graphic novel Sebastian Hawks – Creature Hunter. In 2016, his film, The Darkness, was released to theaters, and a Wolf Creek TV series was released on Australian streaming service Stan.