List of Famous people who born in 1955
Mykola Bilokon
Mykola Vasylovych Bіlokon is a Ukrainian politician, Minister of Internal Affairs of Ukraine in 2003-2005. Colonel general of militia.
Ricky Tognazzi
Ricky Tognazzi is an Italian actor and film director. He has appeared in 50 films and television shows since 1963. His film The Escort was entered into the 1993 Cannes Film Festival.
Alison Gopnik
Alison Gopnik is an American professor of psychology and affiliate professor of philosophy at the University of California, Berkeley. She is known for her work in the areas of cognitive and language development, specializing in the effect of language on thought, the development of a theory of mind, and causal learning. Her writing on psychology and cognitive science has appeared in Science, Scientific American, The Times Literary Supplement, The New York Review of Books, The New York Times, New Scientist, Slate and others. Her body of work also includes four books and over 100 journal articles.
Sevil Aliyeva
Sevil Geydarovna Aliyeva is an Azerbaijani composer and the founder of Space TV. She is also the daughter to the former President of Azerbaijan Geydar Aliyev, as well as the elder sister to the incumbent President Ilkham Aliyev.
Anatoly Khrulyov
Lieutenant General Anatoly Nikolayevich Khrulyov is a Russian general who was the commander of the Russian 58th Army from 2006 until his retirement in 2010. He saw service in South Ossetia during the 2008 Russo-Georgian War, in the course of which he was wounded when his military column moving into Tskhinvali was attacked by Georgian forces on 9 August 2008. On 18 May 2015, he was appointed Chief of the General Staff of the armed forces of Georgia's breakaway Republic of Abkhazia, in which position he was succeeded, 3 August 2018, by Major General Vasily Lunyov, also a career Russian officer.
Walter Veltroni
Walter Veltroni is an Italian writer, film director, journalist, and politician, who served as the first leader of the Democratic Party within the centre-left opposition, until his resignation on 17 February 2009. He served as Mayor of Rome from June 2001 to February 2008.