List of Famous people who born in 1955

Hessel van der Kooij is a popular Dutch singer. He is best known as Hessel, but has also recorded as Ray Maccannon.

Nadia Tass is a Greek-born Australian film director, producer and actress, originally from Florina, Macedonia, northern Greece, who moved to Australia in the 1960s. She began her career as an actress appearing in the television series Prisoner. Tass has developed into one of Australia's most respected and exceptional filmmakers with her films being responsible for twenty-three Australian Film Institute (AFI) nominations, while garnering eight wins including Best Film and Best Director. She has also directed plays in Australia including Miss Bosnia, Cosi and Summer of the Aliens.

Juozas Olekas is a Lithuanian surgeon and politician, a former Minister of National Defence, from 2006 to 2008. In 1990 and from 2003 to 2004 he also served as the Health Minister. In 2019 he was elected to the European Parliament.

James Mathers is an American cinematographer and director of photography. He is the younger brother of former child television star Jerry Mathers of Leave It to Beaver fame.

Dalton James Patrick McGuinty Jr. is a Canadian retired politician who served as the 24th Premier of Ontario from 2003 to 2013. He was the first Liberal leader to win two majority governments since Mitchell Hepburn nearly 70 years earlier. In 2011, he became the first Liberal premier to secure a third consecutive term since Oliver Mowat (1872–1896), after his party was re-elected in that year's provincial election.