List of Famous people who born in 1956

András Herczeg is a Hungarian football manager and former player, who is currently the manager of Debreceni VSC. He worked as the manager of the Debreceni VSC between 2007 and 2010. He led his team to the groups stages of the Champions League 2009–10 season and to the group stages of the Europa League 2010-11 season. His team reached their zenith by beating Sampdoria 2–0 at the Puskás Ferenc Stadium in 2010.

Avi Wigderson is an Israeli mathematician and computer scientist. He is the Herbert H. Maass Professor in the school of mathematics at the Institute for Advanced Study in Princeton, New Jersey. His research interests include complexity theory, parallel algorithms, graph theory, cryptography, distributed computing, and neural networks.

Thorborn Ross Tolleson Jr. is a former Republican state senator from Perry, Georgia closely aligned with former Governor Sonny Perdue. They are both from Houston County, Georgia. On October 30, 2015, Tolleson resigned his seat for health reasons.

Robert McLachlan is a Canadian cinematographer. A successful cyclist in his youth, McLachlan quit the sport to take up cinematography, and entered the field after studying at Simon Fraser University, McLachlan was mentored by Richard Leiterman. His professional career began with documentary work for Greenpeace, before he became involved in both television and feature films; his work has subsequently earned him several industry awards and award nominations.

Mark Ryan is an English actor, author, singer and action director. He is perhaps best known for his portrayal of Mr. Gates in the Michael Bay/Starz production of the pirate show Black Sails, as Nasir in the British TV series Robin of Sherwood, as well as for his work for the Transformers franchise, for which he has voiced Bumblebee, Jetfire and Lockdown. In 2017, he reprised his role as live-action stand-in for the robots in the fifth installment of the Transformers films, Transformers: The Last Knight.

Richard William Brinsley Norton, 8th Baron Grantley, is a retired banker and politician. In early life he worked for the Conservative Party, but joined the UK Independence Party (UKIP) when it was founded in 1993. As Richard Grantley, he was a member of the House of Lords from 1995 to 1999.

Constance "Connie" Ray is an American actress and playwright. Among her highest-profile appearances are Thank You for Smoking (2006) and Stuart Little (1999), and the television drama ER (1997). She also appeared in Ice Princess (2005) and on George Lopez (2002).

Patrick Cassidy is an Irish orchestral, choral, and film score composer.

Vasile Blaga is a Romanian politician who was Speaker of the Upper Chamber of the Romanian Parliament, the Senate, from 2011 to 2012. He also served as Minister of Regional Development and Housing and twice as Minister of Administration and Internal Affairs.