List of Famous people who born in 1956

Edson Araujo Tavares is a Brazilian football manager.

Liang Wengen is a Chinese entrepreneur who founded and serves as the chairman of Sany Heavy Industry. In 2011, he became the richest man in mainland China with a net worth of about US$8 billion. As of November 2018, he is the 68th richest person in China, with a net worth of about $3.5 billion.

Hubert Wulfranc is a French Communist politician who has represented Seine-Maritime's 3rd constituency in the National Assembly since 2017. He sits as part of the Democratic and Republican Left group.

Wang Guosheng is a Chinese politician and senior regional official, currently serving as the Communist Party Secretary of Henan province. Previously, he served as Governor of Hubei province, and the Communist Party Secretary of Qinghai province.

Johannes Bündgens is auxiliary bishop of Aachen.

Antti Herlin is a Finnish billionaire businessman, and the chairman of the Finnish KONE Corporation. He is the son of Pekka Herlin, former chairman of KONE. He is the former chairman of the Confederation of Finnish Industries.

Alexander Waibel is a professor of Computer Science at Carnegie Mellon University and Karlsruhe Institute of Technology. Waibel's research interests focus on speech recognition and translation and human communication signals and systems. Waibel is known for the time delay neural network (TDNN), which he developed. It is the first convolutional neural network (CNN) trained by gradient descent, using the backpropagation algorithm. Alex Waibel introduced the TDNN 1987 at ATR in Japan.

Gabriela von Habsburg is an abstract sculptor, working mainly in stainless steel as well as stone-printed lithography. She was the ambassador of Georgia to Germany from 2009 to 2013. She is the granddaughter of Charles I, the last emperor of Austria.

Pamela Jane Bjorkman is an American biochemist. She is the David Baltimore Professor of Biology and Biological Engineering at the California Institute of Technology (Caltech), Her research centers on the study of the three-dimensional structures of proteins related to Class I MHC, or Major Histocompatibility Complex, proteins of the immune system and proteins involved in the immune responses to viruses. Bjorkman is most well known as a pioneer in the field of structural biology.