List of Famous people who born in 1956

Yury Alexeyevich Dmitriev is a civil rights activist and local historian in Karelia. Since the early 1990s, he has worked to locate the execution sites of Stalin's Great Terror and identify as many as possible of the buried victims they contain. As a result of his commitment, Karelia's past is better documented in this respect than almost any other part of the Russian Federation.

Valeri Nikolayevich Bragin ; born May 31, 1956, is the head coach of the Russia men's national ice hockey team. He is also a retired ice hockey forward. He is former coach of the HC CSKA Moscow team in the KHL.

Roger Rocha Moreira is a Brazilian musician. He is the guitarist, songwriter and singer of Ultraje a Rigor.

Jeffrey Alan Merkley is an American politician serving as the junior United States senator from Oregon since 2009. A member of the Democratic Party, Merkley served as the 64th speaker of the Oregon House of Representatives from 2007 to 2009.

Edward Katumba Wamala, more commonly known as Katumba Wamala, is a Ugandan general who serves as Minister of Works and Transport in the Ugandan cabinet, since 14 December 2019.

Claude Troisgros is a French chef who lives in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. He is the son of the famous chef Pierre Troisgros, who with his brother Jean were among a group of French chefs who pioneered nouvelle cuisine in the 1970s, influenced by Fernand Point.

Sevan Nishanyan is a Turkish-Armenian writer and linguist. An author of a number of books, Nişanyan was awarded the Ayşe Nur Zarakolu Liberty Award of the Turkish Human Rights Association in 2004 for his contributions to greater freedom of speech.

Azmi Bishara is an Arab public intellectual, political philosopher and author. He is presently the General Director of the Arab Center for Research and Policy Studies and the Chair of the Board of Trustees of the Doha Institute for Graduate Studies.

Li Hongzhong is a Chinese politician, serving as Communist Party Secretary of Tianjin and a member of the 19th Politburo of the Communist Party of China. Born in Shenyang, Li spent much of his early career in Guangdong province, including as mayor, then party secretary of Shenzhen. He was transferred to Hubei province in 2007 and would go on to serve as Governor and party secretary there.

John Harwood is an American journalist working as White House Correspondent for CNN as of February 2021. Harwood was formerly an editor-at-large for CNBC. He was the chief Washington Correspondent for CNBC and a contributor for The New York Times. He wrote a weekly column entitled "The Caucus" that appeared on Monday about Washington politics and policy. Before joining the Times, he wrote for The Wall Street Journal.