List of Famous people who born in 1956

Jeffrey S. Yass is an American options trader, and a co-founder and managing director of the Philadelphia-based Susquehanna International Group (SIG). In 2001, he joined the executive advisory council of the Cato Institute.

Fumio Takashima is a Japanese entrepreneur. He is the founder and CEO of Francfranc Corporation.

Tim Paterson is an American computer programmer, best known for creating 86-DOS, an operating system for the Intel 8086. This system emulated the application programming interface (API) of CP/M, which was created by Gary Kildall. 86-DOS later formed the basis of MS-DOS, the most widely used personal computer operating system in the 1980s.

Mark Perry McCahill is an American computer scientist and Internet pioneer. He has developed and popularized a number of Internet technologies since the late 1980s, including the Gopher protocol, Uniform Resource Locators (URLs), and POPmail. He is said to have coined or popularized the phrase "surfing the Internet.". However, prior to McCahill's first use of the phrase in February, 1992, the analogy was also used in a comic Book, The Adventures of Captain Internet and CERF Boy, published in October, 1991 by one of the early Internet Service Providers, CERFnet.

Rick Gates is an Internet pioneer mostly known because he organized The Internet Hunt and raised the ideas of Interpedia. He studied at the Graduate Library School at the University of Arizona.

Dave Thomas is a computer programmer, author and editor. He has written about Ruby and together with Andy Hunt, he co-authored The Pragmatic Programmer and runs The Pragmatic Bookshelf publishing company. Thomas moved to the United States from England in 1994 and lives north of Dallas, Texas.