List of Famous people who born in 1956

Nihal Geyran Koldaş is a Turkish actress and theater director. She is known for her roles in Masumiyet as Yusuf's elder sister and in Bıçak Sırtı as Gönül. Together with Zeki Demirkubuz, she was one of the two producers of Masumiyet.

Jean-Paul Agon is the Chairman and CEO of international cosmetic company, L'Oréal. Because of the age limit of 65 set by the company, he will be replaced in his role of CEO by Nicolas Hieronimus on May 1, 2021, while remaining chairman of the board. He graduated from HEC Paris in 1978.

Ricardo Omar Giusti is an Argentine former footballer. A solid midfielder, he played most of his career with Argentine side Independiente. At international level, he won the FIFA World Cup with Argentina in 1986 and was also a runner-up in the 1990 edition of the tournament. With 53 caps Giusti is currently 38th in the appearance records for the Argentina national football team. He played a part in five major tournaments for his nation.

Francis Mallmann is an Argentine celebrity chef, author, and restaurateur who specializes in Argentine cuisine, and especially in Patagonian cuisine with a focus on various Patagonian methods of barbecuing food. He has been featured on numerous international television programmes, as well as on the Netflix original series Chef's Table.

Sra Kacaw is an Amis Taiwanese politician also known by the name Jeng Tian-tsair.

Huang Kunming is a Chinese politician, currently serving as the head of the Publicity Department of the Communist Party of China and a member of the Politburo of the Communist Party of China. He joined the Publicity Department in 2014 as a deputy head. Prior to his appointment he served in Fujian and Zhejiang provinces, and is considered a close associate of Xi Jinping, current General Secretary of the Communist Party of China. He was the one time Communist Party Secretary of Hangzhou.

Soledad Murillo de la Vega is a Spanish feminist sociologist, researcher, and politician. Since 9 June 2018 she has been the Secretary of State for Equality in the government of Pedro Sánchez. From 2004 to 2008 she was the Secretary General for Equality of Spain's Ministry of Labor and Social Affairs, occupying the top political position in matters of equality in the government of José Luis Rodríguez Zapatero. From 2009 to 2013 she was part of the United Nations' Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Discrimination Against Women (CEDAW) Committee, and from 2011 to 2015 she was a member of the City Council of Salamanca for the Spanish Socialist Workers' Party (PSOE).

Carlos Leitão is a Canadian politician in Quebec, who was elected to the National Assembly of Quebec in the 2014 election. He represents the electoral district of Robert-Baldwin as a member of the Quebec Liberal Party. He was appointed Quebec minister of Finance on April 23, 2014 by Philippe Couillard.

David Alexander Wolf is an American astronaut, medical doctor and electrical engineer. Wolf has been to space four times. Three of his spaceflights were short-duration Space Shuttle missions, the first of which was STS-58 in 1993, and his most recent spaceflight was STS-127 in 2009. Wolf also took part in a long-duration mission aboard the Russian space station Mir which lasted 128 days, and occurred during Mir EO-24. He was brought to Mir aboard STS-86 in September 1997, and landed aboard STS-89 in January 1998. In total Wolf has logged more than 4,040 hours in space. He is also a veteran of 7 spacewalks totaling 41hrs 17min in both Russian and American spacesuits.

Kevin Dunn is an American actor who has appeared in supporting roles in a number of films and television series since the 1980s.