List of Famous people who born in 1955

Du Jiahao is a Chinese politician, serving since 2016 as the Communist Party Secretary of Hunan province. He served between 2013 and 2016 as the Governor of Hunan. Before that, he served as Vice Governor of Heilongjiang province, and also held many positions in Shanghai, including party chief of the Pudong New Area.

Manuel António Marques Machado is a Portuguese football manager, currently in charge of C.D. Nacional.

Chen Kuang-fu is a politician in the Republic of China. He was the Magistrate of Penghu County since 25 December 2014 until 25 December 2018.

Lu Ke is a Chinese materials scientist. He was born in Huachi County, Gansu, and received his bachelor's degree at East China Institute of Technology. In January 1990 he received a doctor's degree at the Institute of Metals Research of the Chinese Academy of Sciences, and became a researcher there 3 years later. In 1993 he was awarded first class natural science prize of the CAS. In 2003, he was elected the youngest academician of the CAS. He is mainly known for his work in the field of crystallization of amorphous metals.

Ayatollah Sheikh Mohsen Araki is an Iranian scholar, cleric, university lecturer, and politician. He is a member of the Assembly of Experts in Iran, and a prominent Iranian cleric and one of the students of the Islamic thinker Grand Ayatollah Mohammad Baqir al-Sadr.

Gao Qinrong is a Chinese journalist who was imprisoned for eight years after reporting on a fraudulent irrigation project in his home province of Shanxi. In 2007, he won the Committee to Protect Journalists' International Press Freedom Award.

Fadeli was an Indonesian politician. He was regent of Lamongan from 2010 to 2015 and from 2016 to 2021.

Ahmet Efe Aydan is a Turkish former professional basketball player. He is regarded by many as the best Turkish basketball player ever, with a total of 224 caps with the senior Turkish national team. He was Turkey's national team captain in 89 games, and he scored 2,195 points with the senior Turkish national team.