List of Famous people who born in 1953

Toshiyuki Shiga is a Japanese business executive. He has served as the President and Chief Operating Officer of Nissan since 2005.

Sir András Schiff is a Hungarian-born Austro-British classical pianist and conductor, who had received numerous major awards and honours, including the Grammy Award, Gramophone Award, Mozart Medal, and Royal Academy of Music Bach Prize, and was appointed Knight Bachelor in the 2014 Queen's Birthday Honours for services to music. He is also known for his public criticism of political movements in Hungary and Austria.

Graciela Camaño is an Argentinian lawyer and politician, she served as Minister of Labour during the presidency of Eduardo Duhalde between May 2002 and May 2003. Currently she is National Deputy for Buenos Aires province since 2003, but she occupied the same seat before twice.

Zhang Chunxian is a Chinese politician, best known for his term as the Communist Party Secretary of the Xinjiang Uyghur Autonomous Region, and the Political Commissar of the Xinjiang Production and Construction Corps from 2010 to 2016. From 2005 to 2010 he was the Party Secretary of Hunan Province.

Pierre Assouline is a French writer and journalist. He was born in Casablanca, Morocco to a Jewish family. He has published several novels and biographies, and also contributes articles for the print media and broadcasts for radio.

Jorge Castañeda Gutman is a Mexican politician and academic who served as Secretary of Foreign Affairs (2000–2003).

Norbert Bolz is a German media theorist. He served as a professor at the Technical University of Berlin until his retirement in 2018.

Reinhard Hans Bütikofer is a German politician who has been member of the European Parliament since 2009. He is a member of the Alliance 90/The Greens, part of the European Green Party. From 8 December 2002 till 16 November 2008 he was party leader, together with Claudia Roth. In November 2012 Bütikofer was chosen co-spokesperson for the European Green Party.

Helmut Holter is a German politician of the party The Left. From 1998 to 2006 he was Minister for Labor and Construction of the German state of Mecklenburg-Vorpommern. From April 2009 to September 2016 he was chairman of The Left parliamentary group in the Landtag of Mecklenburg-Vorpommern. Since August 2017 he has been Minister for Education, Youth and Sport in the state of Thuringia.

Wilkins is a Puerto Rican pop music singer and composer.