List of Famous people who born in 1956

Cho Chikun 25th Honinbo Honorary Meijin is a professional Go player and a nephew of Cho Namchul. His total title tally of 75 titles is the most in the history of the Japanese Nihon Ki-in. Cho is the first player to hold the top three titles—Kisei, Meijin, and Honinbo—simultaneously which he did for three years in a row. Cho is the first in history to win all of the "Top 7" titles in Japan which he achieved by winning the Oza in 1994. Cho U in 2011 and Iyama Yuta in 2013 would duplicate this feat, both by winning the Kisei. He is also one of the 'Six Supers' Japanese players that were most celebrated in the late twentieth century, along with Rin Kaiho, Otake Hideo, Takemiya Masaki, Kato Masao and his classmate and arch-rival Kobayashi Koichi.

José Luis Manzano is an Argentine businessman and former politician. He is currently a partner in the second largest multimedia group in his country, Grupo América, and has investments in several economic sectors, including energy, wine, and clothing.

Tatsuya Mori is a Japanese documentary filmmaker, TV director and author.

Dennie Christian is a German singer of schlager music popular in Germany and the Netherlands; he sings in both languages. His breakthrough song was "Rosamunde" in 1974, and one of his biggest Dutch hits was "Wij zijn twee vrienden". In 2017, he participated in the Dutch TV show Beste Zangers.

Su Huan-chih (Chinese: 蘇煥智; pinyin: Sū Huànzhì; Wade–Giles: Su¹ Huan⁴-chih⁴; born July 20, 1956) was the magistrate of Tainan County from 2001 to 2010, until Tainan County's merger into Tainan City. Born in a rural township in southern Taiwan, Su graduated from National Taiwan University. He passed the bar examination in 1986 and started his career as a lawyer.

António Pedro Nobre Carmona Rodrigues, grand-nephew of Óscar Carmona, is a university professor and a Portuguese politician. He was mayor of Lisbon, and Minister of Public Works, Transportation and Habitation and the Minister of Cities in the 15th Constitutional Government of Portugal.

Walter Moreira Salles Jr. is a Brazilian filmmaker and film producer of international prominence.

Elizabeth Ya Eli Harding was the High Commissioner of The Gambia to the United Kingdom from 2007 to 2013, then the first Ambassador of The Gambia to the United Kingdom from 2013 to 2017, when she was replaced by Francis Blain.

Akio Chen is a Taiwanese actor. He won the Golden Bell Award for Best Actor in a Miniseries or Television Film in 2006.

Chen Hung-chang is a Taiwanese politician.