List of Famous people who born in 1956

Jay Clark Buckey, Jr. is an American physician and astronaut who flew aboard one Space Shuttle mission (STS-90) as a Payload Specialist. Buckey briefly ran for the Democratic nomination to challenge New Hampshire Senator John E. Sununu, a first term Republican, when he was up for re-election in 2008. Buckey withdrew from the race when former Governor Jeanne Shaheen entered the race.

He Qinglian is a Chinese author and economist, most prominently known for her critical view of Chinese society and media controls in China.

Alexander Ivanov is a Soviet-born American chess grandmaster born in Omsk. He moved to the United States in 1988. FIDE awarded him his GM title in 1991. He lives in Massachusetts with his wife, WIM Esther Epstein.

Aaron Lustig is an American film and television actor. He was nominated for an Emmy Award in 1997, for Best Supporting Actor on The Young and the Restless as Tim Reid, whom he has also portrayed on The Bold and the Beautiful. He guest-starred in Criminal Minds as Walter Kern, a serial killer who has been inactive for eighteen years, in the episode "Unfinished Business". He made guest appearances in the seventh season of Desperate Housewives as a transplant coordinator working on the case of Susan Delfino.