List of Famous people who born in 1956

Shunsuke Mutai is a Japanese politician of the Liberal Democratic Party, a member of the House of Representatives in the Diet, having been elected in the 2012 general election. He is a former career bureaucrat in the Ministry of Internal Affairs and Communications and graduate of University of Tokyo. Having unsuccessfully contested his Nagano no. 2 constituency in the 2009 general election, he then served as a professor of local administration at Kanagawa University.

Anthony Robert Kushner is an American playwright, author, and screenwriter. He received the Pulitzer Prize for Drama in 1993 for his play Angels in America, then adapted it for HBO in 2003. He co-authored the screenplay for the 2005 film Munich, and he wrote the screenplay for the 2012 film Lincoln. Both were critically acclaimed, and he received an Academy Award nomination for Best Adapted Screenplay for each. He received a National Medal of Arts from President Barack Obama in 2013.

Geoffrey "Jeff" Madrigali is an American competitive sailor and Olympic medalist. He won a bronze medal in the Soling class at the 1996 Summer Olympics in Atlanta, together with Jim Barton and Kent Massey.

Shinji Miyazaki is a Japanese composer and arranger. He was born in Kobe, and lived in a variety of areas on the island of Shikoku for much of his childhood. He developed a taste for pop music, which eventually led him to study musical arrangement and piano instruction at the Shobi College of Music. He took some time in deciding that music would become his career, but eventually decided to become an arranger, and later a composer.

Elizabeth Ryan, known as Liz Hayes is an Australian reporter, journalist and television presenter.

Oya Başar is a Turkish actress.

Mustafa Tuna is a Turkish engineer, academic, and politician, who served as the 28th mayor of Ankara between November 2017 and April 2019.

Lewis Smith is an American actor.

Ziad Rahbani is a Lebanese composer, pianist, playwright, and political commentator. He is the son of Fairouz, one of Lebanon and the Arab world's most famous singers, and Assi Rahbani, one of the founders of modern Arab music.

Martin Plaza is the pseudonym of Martin Edward Murphy, who is a vocalist/guitarist/songwriter with Australian pop/new wave band Mental As Anything. Plaza also has a solo music career and in 1986 had a No. 2 hit in Australia with his cover of the 1960s Unit 4+2 song "Concrete and Clay". Plaza has worked in other bands and is an accomplished artist. In 2013, Martin underwent surgery for kidney cancer. He is currently on chemotherapy and not playing with the Mentals.