List of Famous people who born in 1956

Yang Hung-duen is a Taiwanese physicist. Yang was the president of National Sun Yat-sen University from 2008 to 2016, when he was selected to lead the Ministry of Science and Technology.

Chen Liang-gee is a Taiwanese engineer and politician who served as Minister of Science and Technology from 8 February 2017 to 20 May 2020.

Isaura Espinoza is a Mexican actress.

Bruno Tshibala Nzenze is a Congolese politician who served as Prime Minister of the Democratic Republic of the Congo from 2017–2019.

Consuelo Madrigal Martínez-Pereda is a Spanish prosecutor who currently serves as prosecutor in the Spanish Supreme Court. Previously, she served as Attorney General of Spain between January 2015 and November 2016, being the first woman to hold this position.

Yves Jacques OC is a Canadian film, television and stage actor.

Ernesto Sanz is a former Argentine politician of the Radical Civic Union and one of the founders of Cambiemos. He served in the Argentine Senate representing Mendoza Province from 2003 to 2015.

Bashar Jaafari, also Ja'afari, is the former Permanent Representative of the Syrian Arab Republic to the United Nations Headquarters in New York City.

Jean-René Bernaudeau is a French former road bicycle racer, who competed professionally from 1978 to 1988. Bernaudeau currently works as the general manager for UCI ProTeam Total Direct Énergie.

Alexander Dmitriyevich Zhukov is a Russian economist and politician. Zhukov was a member of the State Duma from 1994 to 2004. He is the First Deputy Chairman of the State Duma of the Federal Assembly. Previously he was also the President of the Russian Olympic Committee.