List of Famous people who born in 1953

Paul Robin Krugman is an American economist who is the Distinguished Professor of Economics at the Graduate Center of the City University of New York, and a columnist for The New York Times. In 2008, Krugman was awarded the Nobel Memorial Prize in Economic Sciences for his contributions to New Trade Theory and New Economic Geography. The Prize Committee cited Krugman's work explaining the patterns of international trade and the geographic distribution of economic activity, by examining the effects of economies of scale and of consumer preferences for diverse goods and services.

Conrad Robert Murray is a Grenadian former cardiologist who was the personal physician of Michael Jackson at the time of his the singer's death in 2009. Murray was found guilty of involuntary manslaughter for improperly administering the anesthetic drug that led to Jackson's death, and later served two years out of the original four-year prison sentence he was given.

Daniel Eduardo Vila is an entrepreneur, former sports director and lawyer in Argentina. He is president of America TV and Radio La Red, besides being the owner of the media Grupo América, in partnership with the former politician José Luis Manzano. He is also owner of Journal One, a leading newspaper published in Mendoza, Santa Fe, Entre Rios and Rosario. He is also president of Diario La Capital de Rosario and president of Club Sportivo Independiente Rivadavia of Mendoza.

Mushahid Ullah Khan was a Pakistani politician who served as Minister for Climate Change, in Abbasi cabinet from August 2017 to May 2018. A leader of the Pakistan Muslim League (N), Khan has been a member of the Senate of Pakistan since March 2018 and previously served as Minister for Climate Change in the third Sharif ministry in 2015. Mushahid breathed his last on 18 February 2021 after a prolonged ailment.

Nabi Avcı is a Turkish academic, writer and politician who was formerly chief advisor to the Turkish Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdoğan.

Yılmaz Vural is a Turkish football manager and former player. He played as a midfielder for Hacettepe and Sivasspor in the 1970s.

James "J.T." Taylor is an American singer and actor best known as the former lead singer of the R&B/funk band, Kool & the Gang. Before his rise to fame, Taylor was a schoolteacher and amateur night club singer having first joined a band at the age of 13. He joined Kool & the Gang in 1978 and became the band's lead singer in 1979.

Lam Siu-por is a Hong Kong mathematician and the husband of Carrie Lam, the fourth Chief Executive of Hong Kong since 2017.

Griffith Rhys Jones is a Welsh comedian, writer, actor, and television presenter. He starred in a number of television series with his comedy partner, Mel Smith.

Leonel Antonio Fernández Reyna is a Dominican lawyer, academic, and was the 50th and 52nd President of the Dominican Republic from 1996 to 2000 and from 2004 to 2012. Since January 2016, he is the President of the EU–LAC Foundation.