List of Famous people who born in 1956

Aytun Çıray is a Turkish politician who currently serves as the general secretary of the İYİ Party since 25 October 2017. He is currently a Member of Parliament for İzmir's second electoral district, having first been elected in the 2011 general election. He is a former member of the Republican People's Party (CHP) and the Democrat Party (DP).

Dalia Grybauskaitė is a Lithuanian politician who served as the eighth President of Lithuania from 2009 until 2019. She is the first woman to hold the position and became in 2014 the first President of Lithuania to be reelected for a second consecutive term.

Itır Esen is a Turkish film actress. She is the daughter of film actor Hayri Esen. Her niece, also named Itır Esen, is a model.

Gertraud Antonia Wagner-Schöppl is a former Austrian veterinarian and politician.

José Perrella de Oliveira Costa is a Brazilian politician, businessman and former president of the Brazilian football (soccer) team Cruzeiro Esporte Clube

Ray Lui Leung-wai is a Hong Kong actor. Born in Chợ Lớn, Saigon, South Vietnam, he traces his ancestry to Lianjiang, Guangdong. He is best known for his role as "Ting Lik" in the 1980 Hong Kong television series The Bund produced by TVB, which propelled him to fame. Since then, Lui has acted in several films and other television series also produced by TVB.

Kuan Bi-ling is a Taiwanese politician. She is a member of the Democratic Progressive Party, currently serving as a member of the Legislative Yuan.

Hannelore (Hanni) Wenzel is a former alpine ski racer from Liechtenstein, an Olympic, World Cup, and world champion. She won the country's first Olympic medal at the 1976 Winter Olympics in Innsbruck, Austria.

Ernst Fehr is an Austrian-Swiss behavioral economist and neuroeconomist and a Professor of Microeconomics and Experimental Economic Research, as well as the vice chairman of the Department of Economics at the University of Zürich, Switzerland. His research covers the areas of the evolution of human cooperation and sociality, in particular fairness, reciprocity and bounded rationality.

Isabelle Autissier is a French sailor, navigator, writer, and broadcaster. She is celebrated for being the first woman to have completed a solo world navigation in competition.