List of Famous people who born in 1956

Hervé Juvin is a French politician who was elected as a Member of the European Parliament in 2019.

Luiz Eduardo Ramos Baptista Pereira is a Brazilian Army four-star General, who is the current Secretary of Government of President Jair Bolsonaro, succeeding Lieutenant General Carlos Alberto dos Santos Cruz.

Claude Maurice Mulder Bedoya, known as Mauricio Mulder, is a Peruvian politician, lawyer and former journalist. One of the most prominent and influential members of the Peruvian Aprista Party, he served in the Peruvian Congress from 2001 to 2019, representing Lima. From 2004 to 2010, he held the office of party Secretary General.

Afioga Fiamē Naomi Mataʻafa is a Samoan politician and High Chiefess (matai) who has served as the seventh Prime Minister of Samoa and leader of the Faʻatuatua i le Atua Samoa ua Tasi (FAST) party since 2021.

Chen Chin-jun is a Taiwanese politician. He was the Secretary-General of the Executive Yuan from 2007 to 2008.

Pascaline Mferri Bongo Ondimba is a Gabonese politician. Under her father, President Omar Bongo, she was Minister of Foreign Affairs from 1992 to 1994 and Director of the Cabinet of the President from 1994 to 2009.

Érick Zonca is a French film director and screenwriter.

Ernst Strasser is a former Austrian People's Party (ÖVP) politician and former Federal Minister of the Interior in Austria (2000–2004), Member of the European Parliament (2009–2011) and bearer of the "Grand Decoration of Honour in Gold with Sash". Since 2014, he works as an Entrepreneur in the Mergers and acquisitions sector and is also a hotel owner.

Volodymyr Mykhailovych Lytvyn is a Ukrainian politician best known for being Chairman of the Verkhovna Rada, the Ukrainian parliament. Having previously served in that position from 2002 until 2006, he was re-elected in December 2008 after his party agreed to join the former coalition of Yulia Tymoshenko in an expanded capacity and stayed Chairman till December 2012. From 1994 to 1999, Lytvyn was the aide to President Leonid Kuchma and, later, the head of his office.

Atsushi Oshima is a Japanese politician of the Democratic Party for the People, a member of the House of Representatives in the Diet. A native of Kitamoto, Saitama and graduate of Waseda University, he was elected for the first time in 2000.