List of Famous people who born in 1955

Carl-Friedrich Arp Ole Freiherr von Beust, generally called Ole von Beust, is a former German politician who was First Mayor of Hamburg from 31 October 2001 to 25 August 2010, serving as President of the Bundesrat from 1 November 2007 on for one year. He was succeeded as mayor by Christoph Ahlhaus.

Anthony "Tony" Knowles is an English former professional snooker player. He was a three times semi-finalist in the World Professional Snooker Championship in the 1980s.

Milan Bandić is a Croatian politician who is serving his sixth term as mayor of the Croatian capital, Zagreb, since 2005. Between 2000 and 2009, he was a prominent member of the Social Democratic Party (SDP). In 2007, he unsuccessfully ran for party president. However, he remained one of the main rivals of the former party president Zoran Milanović. On 5 November 2009, he announced his intention to run for a president, in violation of the party's bylaws which led to his expulsion from the party. On 10 January 2010, he lost the Croatian presidential election to the official SDP candidate Ivo Josipović in the runoff elections.

Avraham "Avram" Grant is an Israeli football manager. Grant has spent the majority of his career coaching and managing in Israel, winning a number of national league and cup victories with different teams, and also managing the Israeli national team for four years.

Michelle Eunjoo Steel is a South Korean-born American politician serving as the U.S. Representative for California's 48th congressional district. She concurrently serves as a member of House Minority Whip Steve Scalise's Whip Team for the 117th Congress.

Amyr Klink is a Brazilian explorer, sailor and writer. One of his projects, "Antarctica 360", was circumnavigating the Antarctic continent on his own, in 88 days between 1998 and 1999.

Hiromi Itō is one of the most prominent women writers of contemporary Japan, with more than a dozen collections of poetry, several works of prose, numerous books of essays, and several major literary prizes to her name. She divides her time between the towns of Encinitas, California and Kumamoto in southern Japan. She is currently teaching at School of Culture, Media and Society in Waseda University, Tokyo.

Raymond Stuart Kelvin CBE is the founder and former chief executive of the retail clothing retail company Ted Baker. He started working in his uncle's menswear shop in Enfield at the age of eleven and founded the Ted Baker brand in 1988 when he opened a shop specialising in men's shirts in Glasgow.

Gustavo Garzón is an Argentine film and television actor.

Robert Rochefort is a French economist and politician.