List of Famous people who born in 1955

Michael Kevin Pollan is an American author and journalist, who is currently the Knight Professor of Science and Environmental Journalism at the UC Berkeley Graduate School of Journalism.

Hervé Charpentier is a Général d'armée of the French Army.

Mika Juhani Kaurismäki is a Finnish film director.

Thomas Steven Platz is an American retired professional bodybuilder.

Pierre Cox is a French astronomer. Born in Paris to a Dutch composer father and a Belgian pianist mother, he led a musically-oriented childhood from which he rebelled at age 17 to study physics at the Université de Paris-Sud. He is known for his research in the area of millimeter and infrared observations of star-forming regions, evolved stars, and high-redshift galaxies. He has published over 250 refereed papers with more than 22,000 citations in total. Cox is currently a Director of Research (DR1) at CNRS, working at the Institut d'Astrophysique de Paris. From 2013 - 2018, Cox was the Director of ALMA, a position requiring coordinating the efforts of many countries that Cox likened to "being the Secretary General of United Nations". He was previously the Director of the Institut de radioastronomie millimétrique from 2006 through 2013. Prior to IRAM, he had been an astronomer at the Max Planck Institute for Radio Astronomy, the Marseille Observatory, and then the Institut d’Astrophysique Spatiale, an observatory of the CNRS at the Université de Paris-Sud in Orsay. Pierre's hobbies including drawing and playing piano. He speaks five languages fluently.

Maria Imelda Josefa "Imee" Romualdez Marcos is a Filipino politician serving as a Senator since 2019. She previously served as governor of Ilocos Norte from 2010 to 2019, and as representative of Ilocos Norte's 2nd district from 1998 to 2007. She is the daughter of former president Ferdinand Marcos and former first lady Imelda Marcos.

Frédéric Schiffter is a French writer and philosopher.

Béla Tarr is a Hungarian filmmaker. His body of work consists mainly of art films with philosophical themes and long takes.