List of Famous people who born in 1955

Svante Pääbo is a Swedish geneticist specialising in the field of evolutionary genetics. As one of the founders of paleogenetics, he has worked extensively on the neanderthal genome. Since 1997, he has been director of the Department of Genetics at the Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology in Leipzig, Germany.

Egils Levits is a Latvian politician, lawyer, political scientist and jurist who is the President of Latvia since 8 July 2019. He was a Member of the European Court of Justice from 2004 to 2019.

Nelson Alberto Castro is an Argentine journalist, doctor and writer. He hosts political debate show "El Juego Limpio" on Todo Noticias (TN), Thursday nights.

Gülay Doğu Barbarosoğlu is a Turkish industrial engineer and academic administrator who served as rector of Boğaziçi University.

Cláudio Adalberto Adão, or simply Cláudio Adão, is a former Brazilian football player. A gifted forward, Adão was the top-scorer of almost every championship he's played.

Iván Velásquez Gómez is a Colombian jurist and diplomat. From October 2013 to September 2019, he was the head of the International Commission against Impunity in Guatemala (CICIG).

Ali Al Hajj is the former major general and director of the Lebanese Internal Security Forces.

Matthias Jabs is a German guitarist and songwriter. He is best known for being the lead guitarist in the hard rock band Scorpions. He has played on all but the first five Scorpions studio albums starting with Lovedrive (1979) to Return to Forever (2015). He has a music store, MJ Guitars, in Munich, Germany.

Sylvie Kauffmann is a French journalist for Agence France-Presse (AFP) and the newspaper Le Monde. She worked for AFP in France in 1979 and as a foreign correspondent from 1980 to 1988. Kauffmann joined Le Monde as Moscow correspondent in 1988 and later Eastern and Central Europe correspondent from 1989 to 1993. She worked in the United States from 1993 to 2001 and Latin America in 2002 and 2003. Kauffman was appointed deputy chief editor of Le Monde in 2003 and covering Southeast Asia as reporter-in-large from 2006 to 2009. In 2010, she was appointed the newspaper's first woman editor-in chief, serving in the role until 2011.

Fabrice Nicolino is a French journalist born in Paris in 1955.