List of Famous people who born in 1955

Christian Jean Gourcuff is a French professional football manager and former player who was most recently the manager of Ligue 1 club Nantes.

Thomas Aloysius Keller is an American chef, restaurateur, and cookbook writer. He and his landmark Napa Valley restaurant, The French Laundry in Yountville, California, have won multiple awards from the James Beard Foundation, notably the Best California Chef in 1996, and the Best Chef in America in 1997. The restaurant is a perennial winner in the annual Restaurant Magazine list of the Top 50 Restaurants of the World.

Matthias Behr is a German foil fencer. He won a gold medal and three silvers at three Olympic Games.

Tommie Gorman is an Irish journalist. He has worked for RTÉ News and Current Affairs since 1980. He is currently the Northern Ireland editor for RTÉ.

Dattatreya Hosabale is an Indian activist. He became the Sarkaryavah of the Rashtriya Swayamsewak Sangh (RSS) in 2021. During the period of Indian Emergency from 1975 to 1977 he was arrested under the Maintenance of Internal Security Act (MISA) and imprisoned for 16 months. He also served as the general secretary for the student organization, Akhil Bharatiya Vidyarthi Parishad for 15 years.

Asunción Sánchez Abellán, known as Susi Sánchez, is a Spanish theater, film, and television actress.

Yōjirō Takita is a Japanese filmmaker. Takita received an Oscar for Best Foreign Language Film for his 2008 drama Departures. It marked the first time a Japanese film won the award after the category first became competitive in 1957.

Alberto César Tarantini is an Argentine former professional footballer who played as a defender. He won the 1978 FIFA World Cup with the Argentina national football team. He played as a defensive left back early in his career, and later as a wing back.

Thomas Montgomery Newman is an American composer best known for his many film scores. In a career that has spanned over four decades, he has scored numerous classics including The Player, The Shawshank Redemption, Cinderella Man, American Beauty, The Green Mile, In the Bedroom, Angels in America, Finding Nemo, Lemony Snicket's A Series of Unfortunate Events, WALL-E, the James Bond films Skyfall, Spectre, and the war film 1917.

Alfredo Enrique Borrero Vega is an Ecuadorian neurosurgeon and politician. He is the 52nd vice president of Ecuador since 24 May 2021. He was elected to the vice presidency in the 2021 election. Borrero Vega was the running mate of Guillermo Lasso from the political party called Creating Opportunities.