List of Famous people who born in 1956
Paulo Okamotto
Pedro Paixão
Pompeu José
Claude-Oliver Rudolph
Claude-Oliver Rudolph is a German actor, producer, screenwriter, and film director.
Rafael Díez Usabiaga
Steve Barron
Steven Barron is an Irish-British film director, film producer, writer, and music video director. He directed the films Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles (1990), Coneheads (1993) and The Adventures of Pinocchio (1996), as well as numerous music videos including Michael Jackson's "Billie Jean" and A-ha's "Take On Me", with the latter reaching 1 billion views on YouTube.
Ronnie Marruda
Alan Trefler
Alan N. Trefler is an American billionaire businessman and chess master best known as the chief executive officer (CEO) of Pegasystems, a multinational software company he founded in 1983. Prior to Pegasystems, in 1975 Trefler tied for first place in the World Open Chess Championship with grandmaster Pal Benko, afterwards working as a software engineer for Casher Associates and TMI Systems. Founding Pegasystems at the age of 27, he took the company Public company in 1996, with Trefler remaining clerk and president until 1999 and afterwards becoming CEO. With a 52 percent ownership stake in Pegasystems, his net worth surpassed $1 billion in 2013 and in March 2017 he appeared on the Forbes Billionaire's List for the first time. In 2014 he authored the book Build for Change, which addresses changing consumer markets. Involved in philanthropy, in 1997 he established the Trefler Foundation.
Assaad Taha
Assaad Taha is an international award-winning Egyptian journalist and documentary filmmaker. He began his career in print journalism, soon after moving over to radio and television. Reporting became the main medium in which he chose to cover areas of conflict, before specialising in documentary filmmaking.
Gregory Alan Williams
Gregory Alan Williams is an American actor and author. He is best known for portraying LAPD Officer Garner Ellerbee in Baywatch. From 2011 until 2013, Williams portrayed the role of Coach Pat Purnell in the USA Network series Necessary Roughness. Williams also appeared on the 2015 ABC series Secrets and Lies and then on Greenleaf, and later on 2017's Manhunt: Unabomber.