List of Famous people who born in 1955

Grant Major is an Art director from New Zealand who is most famous for his work on The Lord of the Rings films. He won an Oscar for The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King.

Donald Paul Roos is an American screenwriter and film director.

Gene Michael Grossman is the Jacob Viner Professor of International Economics at Princeton University. He received his B.A. in Economics from Yale University in 1976 and his Ph.D. in Economics from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology in 1980. He became assistant professor at Princeton University in 1980 and full professor of economics in 1988. He is well known for his research on international trade, in large part focusing on the relationship between economic growth and trade and the political economy of trade policy. He is also known for his work on the environmental Kuznets curve. He frequently collaborated with Harvard professor Elhanan Helpman, producing three books together: Innovation and Growth in the Global Economy, Special Interest Politics, and Interest Groups and Trade Policy. In 2009, Grossman received an honorary doctorate in Economics from the University of St. Gallen. Grossman received the 2015 Onassis Prize for International Trade. In 2016, Grossman received an honorary doctorate in Economics from the University of Minho. Professor Grossman currently lives with his wife and fellow lecturer at the Princeton School of Public and International Affairs, Jean Baldwin Grossman. He has two children.

Lisa Jane Persky is an American actress, journalist, author, artist, and photographer. She is best known for her supporting roles in the films The Great Santini (1979) Peggy Sue Got Married (1986) and When Harry Met Sally... (1989), and her work in the late 1970s as a writer and photojournalist for New York Rocker magazine.

Nigel Robert Haywood CVO is a British diplomat, who served as British ambassador to Estonia from 2003 until 2008 and Governor of the Falkland Islands from 2010 until 2014.

Raimondo Ponte is a Swiss former professional footballer. At international level, he made 34 appearances for the Swiss national team scoring 2 goals.

Susan Price is an English author of children's and young adult novels. She has won both the Carnegie Medal and the Guardian Prize for British children's books.