List of Famous people who born in 1953

Zhou Benshun is a former Chinese politician. Between 2013 and 2015, he served as the Communist Party Secretary and the top official of Hebei Province. Prior to his post in Hebei, Zhou Benshun was the Secretary-General of the Central Political and Legal Affairs Commission, serving under disgraced domestic security chief Zhou Yongkang.

Sheila Watt-Cloutier, OC is a Canadian Inuit activist. She has been a political representative for Inuit at the regional, national and international levels, most recently as International Chair for Inuit Circumpolar Council. Watt-Cloutier has worked on a range of social and environmental issues affecting Inuit, most recently, persistent organic pollutants and global warming. She has received numerous awards and honors for her work, and has been featured in a number of documentaries and profiled by journalists from all media. Watt-Cloutier sits as an advisor to Canada's Ecofiscal Commission. She is also a senior fellow at the Centre for International Governance Innovation.

Kenji Kitahashi is a Japanese politician and the current mayor of Kitakyushu, Japan. A graduate of the University of Tokyo, he was elected to the House of Representatives in Diet of Japan (parliament) for the first time in 1986 as a member of Democratic Socialist Party, which later became part of Democratic Party of Japan. After losing his seat in 1990, he was re-elected in 1993. In February 2007 he was elected mayor of Kitakyushu.

Masahito Moriyama is a Japanese politician of the Liberal Democratic Party, a member of the House of Representatives in the Diet. A native of Nishinomiya, Hyogo and graduate the University of Tokyo he joined the Ministry of Transport in 1977. He was elected to the House of Representatives for the first time in 2005.

Inés Sabanés Nadal is a Spanish eco-socialist politician. She served as Madrid's Councillor for the Environment and Mobility from 2015 to 2019.

Harold Hyman is a Paris-based journalist. He was born in New York City, attended the Lycée Français de New York, and graduated from Columbia University with a degree in international affairs. He has been a journalist in Paris since 1988, specializing in international diplomacy and international cultural relations. He began his journalism career writing for French and Spanish newspapers, and went on to radio journalist on French radio stations Radio France International and Radio Classique. He currently covers international and American news as a broadcast journalist at CNews, a French TV news network in Paris, France.

Luis Alberto Moreno Mejía is a Colombian businessman and former diplomat who served as president of the Inter-American Development Bank (IADB) from 2005 to 2020. He was Colombia's Ambassador to the United States under president Andrés Pastrana Arango and the former President of the Instituto de Fomento Industrial.

Alexander Vasilyevich Berdnikov is a Russian politician, and was until 2019 head of the Altai Republic.

Karl-Heinz Brunner is a German politician of the Social Democratic Party of Germany (SPD). He was elected a member of the German parliament (Bundestag) in the federal election of 2013.

Katharine Chang is a Taiwanese diplomat.