List of Famous people who born in 1956

Sunny Varkey is a non-resident Indian, Dubai-based education entrepreneur and education philanthropist. He is the founder and chairman of the global advisory and educational management firm GEMS Education, which is the largest operator of private kindergarten-to-grade-12 schools in the world, with a network of 52 schools in 4 countries. He is also the chairman of the umbrella business organisation the Varkey Group, and the founder and trustee of the philanthropic Varkey Foundation. As of 2012, Varkey is also a UNESCO Goodwill Ambassador. And in June 2015, Varkey committed to The Giving Pledge, vowing to donate at least half of his money to philanthropic causes over his lifetime. He is the first education entrepreneur to join the pledge.

Jörg-Uwe Hahn is a German politician of the FDP.

Vladimir Ivanovich Markin was a Russian journalist and politician. He served as Chairman of the Department for Interaction with Mass Media of the Investigative Committee of Russia from 2007 to 2016, the first person to hold the position following the Committee's founding. He also served as First Deputy Chairman of RusHydro from 2016 to 2019.

Karl-Heinz Paque is a German politician for the liberal Free Democratic Party (FDP) and was Minister of Finance of the federal state of Saxony-Anhalt from 2002 to 2006.