List of Famous people who born in 1956

Roberto Zanetti is an Italian singer and music producer from Massa, Tuscany. As a singer, he is known under the stage name Savage and as a music producer he uses the alias Robyx.

Li Xi is a Chinese politician. He is a member of the Politburo of the Communist Party of China and the current Communist Party Secretary of Guangdong province. Li spent much of his career in northwestern China, and served as the party chief of the revolutionary base of Yan'an. He then served as the deputy party chief of Shanghai, then Governor of Liaoning province, then promoted to party secretary.

Wu Weihua is a Chinese plant cell physiologist, molecular biologist and politician. He is chairperson of the Jiusan Society (2017–present), Vice Chairperson of the 13th National People's Congress Standing Committees (2018–present). He is also a member of the Chinese Academy of Sciences.

Jaime Francisco Sebastián Castillo Petruzzi, known as Torito, is a former Chilean militant of the left-wing organization Movimiento de Izquierda Revolucionaria who worked with the Túpac Amaru Revolutionary Movement during the internal conflict in Peru. He was convicted by a Peruvian military tribunal of high treason in 1993 and sentenced to life in prison. In 2003, after a new trial in accordance with a ruling by the Inter-American Court of Human Rights, Castillo was sentenced to 23 years in prison. He was released on 14 October 2016 and expelled to Chile.

Frédéric Gagey is a French businessman, the current CFO of Air France–KLM.

Raşit Çetiner is a Turkish football coach and a former player of Galatasaray (1981–1988) and Fenerbahçe (1978–1981). He also played for Kocaelispor between 1974 and 1978. In 1978, when playing for Kocaelispor he became the top goal-scorer in TFF First League and awarded as the Player of the Year. In 1982 and 1985 he helped Galatasaray win the Turkish Cup. He retired in 1988 after sustaining a serious injury in a Galatasaray-Samsunspor match in 1986–87.

Mohamed Ould Cheikh Mohamed Ahmed Ould Ghazouani, also known as Ghazouani and Ould Ghazouani, is a Mauritanian politician and retired Mauritanian Army general who is the 9th President of Mauritania, having assumed office on 1 August 2019.

Álvaro Pino Couñago is a former professional road racing cyclist from Galicia who raced between 1981 through 1991 and is most famous for winning the overall title at the 1986 Vuelta a España over favorites Robert Millar from Great Britain, Laurent Fignon from France and Sean Kelly from Ireland. The following year, Pino captured the 1987 Volta a Catalunya and at the 1988 Vuelta, Pino won two stages and the King of the Mountains jersey. In all, he won five stages over his career at the Vuelta a España.

Miroslav "Mirko" Votava is a German retired footballer, and a coach.

David Allen Grossman is an American author and law enforcement trainer who has specialized in the study of the psychology of killing, a proposed subset of psychology focused on the study of the effects of killing on the human psyche. He is a retired lieutenant colonel in the United States Army.