List of Famous people who born in 1956

Christine Boisson is a French actress.

Hüseyin Baybaşin is a drug trafficker of Kurdish origin from Turkey. He is currently serving life sentence in the Netherlands convicted of murder, drug smuggling and other charges.

Fernando Botero Zea is a Colombian politician who served in several public positions, including as Defense Minister under President Ernesto Samper, for whom he was campaign manager for Samper's presidential run. Botero was elected as a member of the Colombian Congress for the Colombian Liberal Party. His father is the internationally recognized painter and sculptor Fernando Botero.

Akimi Yoshida is a Japanese manga artist and a graduate of Musashino Art University. She made her professional debut in 1977 with the short story Chotto Fushigi na Geshukunin , published in Bessatsu Shōjo Comic magazine. Yoshida is best known for the crime thriller series Banana Fish, which received an anime adaptation produced by MAPPA in 2018.

Norbert Krief, often known as Nono, is a French rock guitarist.

Hsieh Ling-ling is a Taiwanese-born child star and the ex-wife of Hong Kong billionaire Peter Lam.

Alford Corley is an American actor, singer and producer. Corley is best known as the first actor to play Steven Carrington on the 1980s soap opera Dynasty and his 1984 hit single "Square Rooms".

Veronika Arkadyevna Dolina is a Soviet and Russian poet, bard, and songwriter.

Hany Manuel Tadros is an Egyptian-Canadian singer, songwriter, actor, comedian and voice actor. He currently works and lives in Quebec.

Geoffrey Ma Tao-li is a Hong Kong judge who served as the 2nd Chief Justice of the Hong Kong Court of Final Appeal—the court of last resort in Hong Kong. Between 2001 and 2010, he held various positions in the High Court of Hong Kong, including Chief Judge, Justice of Appeal, and Judge of the Court of First Instance. Before his judicial career, he was a barrister-at-law in private practice at Temple Chambers, and was qualified to practice in England and Wales, Hong Kong, Australia and Singapore.