List of Famous people who born in 1955

Victor Alexandrovich Kolyvagin is a Russian mathematician who wrote a series of papers on Euler systems, leading to breakthroughs on the Birch and Swinnerton-Dyer conjecture, and Iwasawa's conjecture for cyclotomic fields. His work also influenced Andrew Wiles's work on Fermat's Last Theorem.

Frédéric Rousseau is a French historian, specializing in the social history of soldiers in World War I. He is notable as one of the first historians to discussion the suppression of sexuality in combatants, and early use of the term and view "demodernization" (2000). He teaches at the University of Montpellier, and is a director of Laboratoire CRISES.

Joseph Edelman is an American billionaire hedge fund manager. He is the founder and portfolio manager of Perceptive Advisors, a New York City-based hedge fund, founded in 1999.

Bruce Karsh is an American investor and former lawyer. In the early 1980s he was an appellate clerk to former Supreme Court of the United States justice Anthony M. Kennedy, and later worked at O'Melveny & Myers, Sun Life Insurance Company (formerly Kaufman & Broad), and the TCW Group. He co-founded Oaktree Capital Management in 1995, later becoming the firm's Co-Chairman and CIO. As of August 2020, according to Forbes magazine, he has a net worth of $2.1 billion, ranking him No. 391 on the Forbes 400.