List of Famous people who born in 1956

Élisabeth Fanger is the French author of J'avais dix-huit ans, an autobiographical account of her adventures following her bank-robber boyfriend Sid Mohamed Badaoui on the run from Paris. The trip would lead them to Spain, Morocco, and eventually Greece. Fanger's novel was made into the 2004 Benoît Jacquot film À tout de suite.

Stephanie Zimbalist is an American actress best known for her role as Laura Holt in the NBC detective series Remington Steele.

Afric Simone is a Mozambican vocalist, musician, performance artist, multi-instrumentalist, dancer and entertainer. He entered the European charts with his first hit "Ramaya" in 1975, which was followed by another well-known song, "Hafanana", which was released later the same year.

Philippe Wahl is a French business executive. Having previously been a government advisor and bank executive, in September 2013 he was appointed president and chief executive officer of La Poste, the group which includes the French postal service.

Éric Prat is a French actor. He appeared in more than ninety films since 1980.

Vladimir Iosifovich Sloutsker is a Russian Oligarch and former senator who represented Chuvash Republic in the Russian parliament. Sloutsker is the co-founder and President of the Israeli Jewish Congress.

Emily Margarethe Haber is a German diplomat. She served as State Secretary from 2011 to 2018: from 2011 to 2013, at the Federal Foreign Office and from 2014 to 2018, at the Federal Ministry of the Interior. She is currently serving as German Ambassador to the United States.

Franz Tost is an Austrian former racing driver and current team principal of the Scuderia AlphaTauri Formula One team.

Ricardo Hausmann is the former Director of the Center for International Development currently leading the Center for International Development’s Growth Lab and is a Professor of the Practice of Economic Development at the John F. Kennedy School of Government at Harvard University. He is also a former Venezuelan Minister of Planning and former Head of the Presidential Office of Coordination and Planning (1992–1993). He co-introduced several regularly used concepts in economics including original sin, growth diagnostics, self-discovery, dark matter, the product space, and economic complexity.

Christian Dubé is Canadian politician. He is a member of the National Assembly of Quebec for the riding of La Prairie, and serves as Minister of Health and Social Services.