List of Famous people who born in 1956

Patrick Lloyd McCrory is an American businessman, politician, and radio host who served as the 74th Governor of North Carolina from 2013 to 2017 as a member of the Republican Party. Previously, he was the 53rd Mayor of Charlotte from 1995 to 2009 and served on the United States Homeland Security Advisory Council from 2002 to 2006.

Tim Macartney-Snape is a mountaineer and author. On 3 October 1984 Macartney-Snape and Greg Mortimer were the first Australians to reach the summit of Mount Everest. They reached the summit, climbing without supplementary oxygen, via a new route on the North Face. In 1990, Macartney-Snape became the first person to walk and climb from sea level to the top of Mount Everest. Macartney-Snape is also the co-founder of the Sea to Summit range of outdoor and adventure gear and accessories, a guide for adventure travel company World Expeditions and a founding director and patron of the World Transformation Movement.

Stephen Ernest Stockman is an American politician who is a member of the Republican Party and a convicted felon. He served as the U.S. Representative for Texas's 9th congressional district from 1995 to 1997 and for Texas's 36th congressional district from 2013 to 2015. Stockman ran in the Republican primary for the United States Senate in the 2014 election but lost to incumbent Senator John Cornyn.

Siti Nurbaya Bakar is the Minister of Environment and Forestry in Indonesian President Joko Widodo's Working Cabinet.

John Cooper is an American politician and businessman who is the mayor of Nashville, Tennessee. A Democrat, he served as a councilman at-large on the Metropolitan Council of Nashville and Davidson County from 2015 until 2019. He is the brother of U.S. Representative Jim Cooper, who represents Tennessee's 5th congressional district, which is based in Nashville.

Leïla Ben Ali is the widow of Zine El Abidine Ben Ali, who was President of Tunisia from 1987 to 2011. She married Ben Ali in 1992.

Paige O'Hara, is an American actress, voice actress, singer and painter. O'Hara began her career as a Broadway actress in 1983 when she portrayed Ellie May Chipley in the musical Showboat. In 1991, she made her motion picture debut in Disney's Beauty and the Beast, in which she voiced the film's heroine, Belle. Following the critical and commercial success of Beauty and the Beast, O'Hara reprised her role as Belle in the film's two direct-to-video follow-ups, Beauty and the Beast: The Enchanted Christmas (1997) and Belle's Magical World (1998), and for a cameo appearance in Ralph Breaks the Internet (2018).

Nomula Narsimhaiah was an Indian politician and Member of Telangana Legislative Assembly belonging to Telangana Rashtra Samithi. He was elected as a legislator from Nagarjunasagar constituency in 2018 Telangana general elections by defeating Congress leader Kunduru Jana Reddy by 7771 votes. He was a legislator and a senior leader with CPI-M. He was elected twice as a MLA from Nakrekal assembly constituency and leader of CPI-M in the Legislative Assembly.

Peter Michael Ainsworth is a former Conservative politician in the United Kingdom. He was the Member of Parliament for East Surrey from 1992 to 2010.

Imangali Nurgaliuly Tasmagambetov is a retired Kazakh politician and diplomat who most recently served as the Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary of Kazakhstan to the Russian Federation from 2017 to 2019. He served as Deputy Prime Minister of Kazakhstan from 2016 to 2017 and as Minister of Defense of Kazakhstan from 2014 to 2016. He was the akim of Astana from 2008 to 2014 and from 2004 to 2008, as akim of Almaty. Before that, from 2002 to 2003, he was the Prime Minister of Kazakhstan.