List of Famous people who born in 1955

Sonja Morgenstern is a German figure skating coach and former competitor.

Mary Ann Vecchio is one of two subjects in the Pulitzer Prize-winning photograph by photojournalism student John Filo during the immediate aftermath of the Kent State shootings on May 4, 1970.

Sedki Sobhy Sayyid Ahmad is an Egyptian politician and former General who was Minister of Defence of Egypt from 2014 until 2018. Sobhy previously served as the Chief of Staff of the Armed Forces from August 2012 to March 2014. He was sworn in as Minister of Defence in March 2014 after Abdul Fattah al-Sisi resigned so he could stand for the presidency. He also commanded the Third Army for a time.

Edward Richard Morrison Bye is a British film and TV producer and director.

Sabine von Maydell is a German television actress. From October 1984 to March 2014, she was married to actor Claude-Oliver Rudolph. She has a son and a daughter, Oona von Maydell, who is also an actress.

Valentina Aleksandrovna Petrenko is a Russian politician, who serves as Russian Federation Senator from Khakassia since 2001. She serves on the Committee on Social Policy and has a PhD in Education

Yevgeni Vasilyevich Trefilov Was the handball head coach of the Russian women's national team. He has led the Russian team to win the IHF World Women's Handball Championship four times, in 2001, 2005, 2007 and 2009. He rejoined the national team on 16 September 2013. Under his supervision, Russia won the 2016 Summer Olympics.

Yukihiko Tsutsumi is a Japanese television and film director. He began directing commercials and music promotion videos as an employee of Nihon Television. After spending time abroad, he returned and started his own production company, Office Crescendo, from which he works independently. His first television drama on Nihon Television was called Kora! Tonneruzu and ran from 1985 to 1989. He directed Taitei no Ken, an original work by Baku Yumemakura, in 2007.

Philippe Lafontaine is a Belgian singer and composer.

Waldir Maranhão Cardoso is a Brazilian politician and a member of the Brazilian Social Democracy Party (PSDB). He was rector of the State University of Maranhão before being elected to the Chamber of Deputies in 2006. As Vice President of the Chamber he became Acting President of the Chamber of Deputies on 5 May 2016 following the suspension of Eduardo Cunha, until new elections were held on July 13, with Rodrigo Maia as the new President.