List of Famous people who born in 1956

Jordi Sevilla Segura, is a Spanish politician and economist chairman of Red Eléctrica Group between 2018 and 2020, when he resigned. He was Minister for Public Administration between 2004 and 2007.

Philippe Le Guay is a French screenwriter, film director and occasional actor. He studied film at the IDHEC and began his career as a screenwriter before directing his first feature film Les Deux Fragonard in 1989. He is known for his work on The Women on the 6th Floor (2010), which was well received at the French box office, and the César Award-nominated Bicycling with Molière (2013).

Joachim Herrmann is a German politician. He is a member of the CSU party. Herrmann is an MP in the Landtag, the parliament of Bavaria since 1994. Since 16 October 2007 he has been Minister of the Interior of the state of Bavaria.

Juan Cristián Campos Sallato is a Chilean actor and director of theater, film and television.

Igor Nikolaevich Morozov ; born December 10, 1956, Spassk-Ryazansky, USSR) is a Russian politician, a member of the Federation Council of the Ryazan Oblast, candidate for governor of the Ryazan Oblast. Expert in the field of international economic relations, the author of several scientific papers.

Stella Kyriakides is a Cypriot psychologist and politician of the conservative Democratic Rally party who has been serving as European Commissioner for Health and Food Safety since 2019. She served as the first Cypriot national and third woman President of the Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe.

Waltraud Meier is a Grammy Award–winning German dramatic soprano and mezzo-soprano singer. She is particularly known for her Wagnerian roles as Kundry, Isolde, Ortrud, Venus, Fricka, and Sieglinde, but has also had success in the French and Italian repertoire appearing as Eboli, Amneris, Carmen, and Santuzza. She resides in Munich.

Paulo Pereira da Silva, better known as Paulinho da Força is a Brazilian metallurgist and politician. He had served as federal deputy from 2007 to 2020, until he had his mandate repealed and political rights suspended by the Supreme Federal Court in June 2020. Pereira is a member of Solidariedade (SD).

Lai Shin-yuan is a Taiwanese politician who served as minister of the Mainland Affairs Council from 2008 to 2012.

Detlef Scheele is a German politician (SPD). On 1 April 2017, he became Chairman of the German Federal Employment Agency.