List of Famous people who born in 1956

Klaus Cichutek is a German biochemist and the current President of the Paul Ehrlich Institute. He is also professor of biochemistry at the Goethe University Frankfurt.

Maria Teresa is the spouse of Grand Duke Henri, who acceded to the throne in 2000. She was born in Cuba.

Joseph Steven Lacob is an American business executive who is a partner at Kleiner Perkins and the majority owner of the Golden State Warriors of the National Basketball Association (NBA).

Joseph A. Buttafuoco is an auto body shop owner from Long Island who had a sexual relationship with a minor, Amy Fisher, who subsequently shot his wife, Mary Jo Buttafuoco, in the face. Tabloid news coverage labelled Fisher the "Long Island Lolita".

John Michie is a Scottish television and film actor, known for his roles as DI Robbie Ross in the STV detective drama series Taggart, as Karl Munro in Coronation Street from 2011–2013 and his role as CEO Guy Self in Casualty and Holby City.

Cynthia Rhodes is a retired American actress, singer and dancer. Her film roles include Tina Tech in Flashdance (1983), Jackie in Staying Alive (1983), Penny in Dirty Dancing (1987) and officer Karen Thompson in Runaway.

Elmer Wayne Henley Jr. is a convicted American serial killer and sex offender, incarcerated in the Texas Department of Criminal Justice (TDCJ) system. Henley was convicted in 1974 for his role as a participant in a series of murders known colloquially as the Houston Mass Murders in which a minimum of 28 teenage boys and young men were abducted, tortured, raped and murdered by Dean Corll between 1970 and 1973. Henley and David Owen Brooks, together and individually, lured many of the victims to Corll's home. Henley, then 17 years old, shot Corll to death on August 8, 1973.

Celeste Carballo is an Argentine singer-songwriter rock, blues, hard rock, punk and tango. She became known in the early 1980s for her distinctive voice range from B2 to F#6 in head voice. Her highest note in chest voice is B5. This way her voice covers 3.7 octaves.

Leonard Lansink is a German actor. He appeared in more than one hundred films since 1983.

Kenji Eda is a Japanese politician and member of the House of Representatives in the Diet. A native of Okayama Prefecture and graduate of the University of Tokyo, he joined the Ministry of International Trade and Industry in 1979, attending the Center for International Affairs at Harvard University in the United States while in the ministry. Leaving the government in 1998, he ran unsuccessfully for the House of Representatives in 2000 as a member of the Liberal Democratic Party. He ran again in 2002 as an independent, and was elected for the first time. He lost his seat in 2003, but was re-elected in 2005.