List of Famous people who born in 1953

Armand Amar is a French composer, who grew up in Morocco. He won the 2010 César Award for Best Music for Le Concert.

Ziyad al-Nakhalah has since 28 September 2018 been the leader of Palestinian Islamic Jihad (PIJ), which has been designated a terrorist organisation by the United States, the European Union, the United Kingdom, Japan, Canada, Australia, New Zealand and Israel. Al-Nakhalah was designated a Specially Designated Terrorist by the United States in 2014.

Zhu Shanlu is a Chinese politician who served as the Communist Party Secretary of Peking University from 2011 to 2016. He previously served as Party Secretary of the city of Nanjing.

Edgar Yves Monnou is a Beninese politician. He was the foreign minister of Benin from 1995 to 1996.

Ding Kung-wha is a Taiwanese politician who served as the Chairperson of Financial Supervisory Commission in 2016.

Guy Mongrain is a Canadian game show host and former reporter. He is mostly known to host several popular Quebec television games on the network TVA for the past 20 years.

Manfred Kaltz is a former German football player and manager, who played as a right back.

Hélène David is a Canadian politician, who was elected to the National Assembly of Quebec in the 2014 provincial election. She represented the electoral district of Outremont from 2014 to 2018, and currently represents the district of Marguerite-Bourgeoys, as a member of the Quebec Liberal Party,. David was Minister of Culture and Communications and Minister Responsible for the Protection and Promotion of the French Language from 2014 to 2016 in the Couillard government, then Minister Responsible for Higher Education from 2016 to 2018.

Sister Mary Prema Pierick, M.C., is an Indian Catholic religious sister and the current Superior General of the Missionaries of Charity of Calcutta, India, the religious institute founded by the Saint Mother Teresa of Calcutta. She is of German descent.

Slavoljub Muslin ; born 15 June 1953) is a Serbian football manager and former player. He worked as a head coach of the Serbian national football team. He began his head coaching career in 1988 and has since had stints in France, Morocco, Serbia-Montenegro, Bulgaria, Ukraine, Belgium, Cyprus, Belarus and Russia. On 5 May 2016 he became the head coach of the Serbian national football team until October 2017. Prior to that, Muslin was a notable football player. He played as a defender for several clubs, being the most important Red Star Belgrade and later Lille OSC.