List of Famous people who born in 1956

Ning Jizhe is a Chinese economist and senior official currently serving as the director of the National Bureau of Statistics of China and Vice Chairman of the National Development and Reform Commission.

Osama Abdul Aziz al-Nujaifi or Najifi is an Iraqi politician and served as one of the three Vice Presidents of the country, from 2016 to 2018. As the Speaker of the Council of Representatives, the informal leader of the moderate Sunni al-Hadba party was the highest ranking Sunni politician of Iraq.

E Jingping is a Chinese engineer and politician currently serving as Minister of Water Resources.

Shi Taifeng is a Chinese politician serving since 2019 as the Communist Party Secretary of Inner Mongolia Autonomous Region. Originally from Shanxi province, Shi spent part of his career at the Central Party School. He has also served as the Communist Party Secretary of Suzhou, the Deputy Party Secretary and the Governor of Jiangsu province. Later he served as the Communist Party Secretary of the Ningxia Hui Autonomous Region.

Chung Shao-ho is a Taiwanese politician who served in the Legislative Yuan from 1999 to 2012.

Dhu al-Himma Shalish is the first cousin of Syrian President Bashar al-Assad and head of presidential security. He is part Bashar al-Assad's inner circle.

Ong Tee Keat is a Malaysian politician. He was a member of the Parliament of Malaysia from 28 January 1989 to 5 May 2013, the Transport Minister in the Malaysian federal cabinet from 18 March 2008 to 4 June 2010 and the 8th president of the Malaysian Chinese Association (MCA), a major component party of Barisan Nasional (BN) coalition from 18 October 2008 to 28 March 2010.

Wang Dongming is a Chinese politician who has served since 2018 as the Vice Chairperson of the Standing Committee of the National People's Congress and the Chairman of the All-China Federation of Trade Unions. Originally from Liaoning province, Wang served as the chief of the General Office of the Central Institutional Organization Commission between 2007 and 2012, and the Communist Party Secretary of Sichuan province between 2012 and 2018.

Rui Pereira was a Portuguese Minister of Internal Administration (Ministro da Administração Interna). He took office May 17, 2007 and ended service in 2011. Before that he was a Constitutional Court judge.

Franciscus Petrus Theodorus Hoek is a Dutch football coach and former player. As a player, he was a goalkeeper for FC Volendam for more than a decade, before going into coaching as an assistant to Louis van Gaal at club sides AFC Ajax, FC Barcelona, FC Bayern Munich and Manchester United, and the Netherlands national team. He also worked for the Poland national team under fellow Dutchman Leo Beenhakker. He has worked with goalkeepers including Edwin van der Sar, Stanley Menzo, Víctor Valdés, Vítor Baía, Pepe Reina, Robert Enke, Łukasz Fabiański, Thomas Kraft, Michel Vorm and David de Gea. Hoek is widely regarded as one of world football's foremost goalkeeping mentors.