List of Famous people who born in 1956

Alain Fousseret is one of ten vice presidents of the Franche-Comté Regional Council. He won the nomination to be the next Greens/Europe Écologie candidate for President of Franche-Comté in 2010.

Ellen S. Pressman is an American television director and producer.

Naomi J. Halas is the Stanley C. Moore Professor in Electrical and Computer Engineering, and Professor of biomedical engineering, chemistry and physics at Rice University. She is also the founding director of Rice University Laboratory for Nanophotonics, and the Smalley-Curl Institute. She invented the first nanoparticle with tunable plasmonic resonances, which are controlled by their shape and structure, and has won numerous awards for her pioneering work in the field of nanophotonics and plasmonics. She was also part of a team that developed the first dark pulse soliton in 1987 while working for IBM.

Roberto Robaina González was the Foreign Minister of Cuba from 1993 until 1999.

Robin Lim is a midwife and founder of Yayasan Bumi Sehat health clinics, which offer free prenatal care, birthing services and medical aid to anyone who needs it. She and her team have been working since 2003 to combat Indonesia's high maternal and infant mortality rates, and the Bumi Sehat birth centers serve many at-risk mothers. She was awarded the 2011 CNN Hero of the Year award by the CNN news network for helping thousands of low-income women in Indonesia with healthy pregnancy and birth services.

José Daniel Falla Robles was a Colombian Roman Catholic bishop.