List of Famous people who born in 1955

Desmond D'andrea Dickerson is an American guitarist and singer who was a member of Prince's band, the Revolution.

Joaquín de Jesús Caparrós Camino is a Spanish football coach, currently in charge of the Armenian national team.

Paulina "Poulli" Chiziane is an author of novels and short stories in the Portuguese language. She was awarded the 2021 Camões Prize for literature, awarded to writers from Portuguese-speaking countries.

Fraser Clarke Heston is an American film director, film producer, screenwriter and actor. He is the son of actors Charlton Heston and Lydia Clarke, and has a sister, Holly Rochell Heston.

Francisca Eugénia da Silva Dias Van Dunem is an Angolan-Portuguese lawyer and politician who has been serving as the Portuguese Minister of Justice since 26 November 2015, in António Costa's XXI and XXII Constitutional Governments. Van Dunem is Portugal's first black government minister in history.

Najib Azmi Mikati is a Lebanese politician, and billionaire businessman, who served as Prime Minister of Lebanon in 2005 and from 2011 to 2014. From April 2005 to July 2005 he was Prime Minister of Lebanon in a caretaker government. On 25 January 2011, he was nominated to serve as Prime Minister by a majority of the votes in the parliamentary consultations following the 12 January fall of the Lebanese government of November 2009. The government was formed on 13 June 2011, after many delays. On 22 March 2013, Mikati submitted his resignation from office, which Lebanese president Michel Suleiman accepted on 23 March 2013.

Catherine D. Wood is the founder, CEO, and CIO of ARK Investment Management LLC, an investment management firm that managed the largest actively-managed exchange-traded fund in 2020. Wood was named the best stock picker of 2020 by Bloomberg News editor-in-chief emeritus Matthew A. Winkler, and in January 2021, Wood's Ark Investment Management filed plans for ARK Space Exploration ETF with the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission to "primarily track U.S. and global companies engaged in space exploration and innovation."

Lesley Garrett, CBE is an English soprano singer, musician, broadcaster and media personality. She is noted for being at home in opera and "crossover music".

James George Stavridis is a retired United States Navy admiral, currently an Operating Executive with The Carlyle Group and Chair of the Board of Counselors at McLarty Associates. In August 2018, he stepped down as the dean of the Fletcher School of Law and Diplomacy at Tufts University, a graduate school for international affairs. Stavridis serves as the chief international diplomacy and national security analyst for NBC News in New York. He is also Chair Emeritus of the Board of Directors of the U.S. Naval Institute and a Senior Fellow at the Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Laboratory.

Sabahat Akkiray, better known as Sabahat Akkiraz, is a Turkish folk music singer and was a Member of Parliament for Istanbul between 2011 and 2015 from the Republican People's Party (CHP).