List of Famous people who born in 1953

Juan Villalonga Navarro is a Spanish businessman. He was a partner at McKinsey & Company in the 1980s, CEO for Credit Suisse First Boston and Bankers Trust in Spain in the early 1990s, and CEO of Telefónica from 1996 to 2000.

Robert Blake Neller is a retired United States Marine Corps four-star general who served as the 37th Commandant of the Marine Corps. He assumed his assignment on September 24, 2015 and retired on July 11, 2019. He was succeeded by David H. Berger.

Merrill Davis Osmond is the lead singer and bassist of the family music group The Osmonds and The Osmond Brothers. He continues to perform, both as a solo artist and with his younger brother Jay Osmond under the Osmonds banner.

Robert Ray Wisdom is an American actor best known for his roles as Howard "Bunny" Colvin in The Wire and Norman "Lechero" St. John in Prison Break.

Simonetta "Simona" Izzo is an Italian actress, voice actress, director and screenwriter.

Lu Ping, born in Kaohsiung in 1953, is a Taiwanese writer who writes under the pen name “Ping Lu”. Her writing encompasses a broad range of genres, including novels, essays, poems, commentary, and theater plays. She is also known in the Chinese-language world for her critique of social phenomenon, ranging from cultural development to gender issues and human rights. Over the past two decades, Ms. Lu has successfully established herself as a prominent novelist, columnist, and commentator in Taiwan.

Gerhard Oppitz is a German classical pianist.

Khaled Al Jarrah Al Sabah is a Kuwaiti lieutenant general, who retired from military services after being appointed as minister of defense to succeed retired Lt General Sheikh Ahmed Al Khaled Al Hamad Al Sabah. He was deputy prime minister and minister of defense from 4 August 2013 to 11 December 2017. He is a member of the ruling family of Kuwait, Al Sabah.