List of Famous people who born in 1956

Annie Genevard is a French politician serving as the member of the National Assembly for the fifth constituency of Doubs since 2012. A teacher by occupation, she was Mayor of Morteau from 2002 until 2017. Genevard also served as Secretary-General of The Republicans from 2017 to 2019 under the leadership of Laurent Wauquiez and Jean Leonetti.

Tatjana Blacher is a German actress. She is the daughter of composer Boris Blacher and pianist Gerty Blacher-Herzog. Blacher studied at the Max Reinhardt seminar and at the Lee Strasberg Theatre and Film Institute. She is mostly known for her role as Edith Frank in Anne Frank: The Whole Story. She has been on many TV shows and has a son named Josh. She is multi-talented. She has had professional training in singing and dancing. She comes from Berlin, Germany and speaks fluent English as well as her native German. She had started her career in 1997 in her debut film called Reise in die Dunkelheit.

Engin Verel is Turkish former professional footballer who spent most of his career with İstanbul-based rivals Fenerbahçe and Galatasaray.

Joan Rosell Lastortras is the president of the Spanish employers confederation (CEOE). He replaced Gerardo Diaz Ferran in June 2011. Prior to being elected to this post he was the president of the Catalan national employers federation for 16 years. During his career he was president of the following companies; Congost, Enher, Fuerzas Eléctricas de Cataluña and OMB, Sistemas de Higiene Urbana.

General Erhard Bühler is a retired officer of the German Army, and the former Director General for Planning German Ministry of Defence in Berlin, Germany. He was the commander of KFOR, from September 2010 to September 2011. He led approximately 5000 troops, although the number declined during his tenure as the security situation in Kosovo improved. In 2004, Bühler had led the Bundeswehr contingent of KFOR in Prizren. Bühler commanded Allied Joint Force Command Brunssum from 31 March 2019 to 22 April 2020.

Connie Mak Kit-man, also called Connie Mak and Kitman Mak, is a Hong Kong singer and actress. Her ancestral hometown is Qingyuan, Guangdong.

Alfredo Moreno Charme is a Chilean diplomat and politician.

Mehmet Mehdi Eker is a Turkish politician who served as the Minister of Food, Agriculture and Livestock of Turkey from 2005 until 2015. He was elected a Member of Parliament for the electoral district of Diyarbakır for Democratic People's Party in 2002. He was re-elected in 2007 and 2011 for the Justice and Development Party (AKP). He was again elected as an MP in 2018.

Nora Volkow is a Mexican-American psychiatrist. She is currently the director of the National Institute on Drug Abuse (NIDA), which is part of the National Institutes of Health (NIH).

Nádia Lippi is a Brazilian actress.