List of Famous people who born in 1957
Walid Phares
Walid Phares is a Lebanese-born American scholar and conservative political pundit. He worked for the Republican presidential campaigns of Mitt Romney in 2012 and Donald Trump in 2016. He has also served as a commentator on terrorism and the Middle East for Fox News since 2007, and for NBC from 2003 to 2006. A Maronite Christian, Phares has gained notoriety for his association with Lebanese Christian militias in the 1980s during the Lebanese Civil War, and for his anti-Islam views.
Hansi Müller
Hans-Peter "Hansi" Müller is a former German footballer who played as a midfielder. Both his parents were of Transylvanian Saxon descent that were deported from Romania after World War II.
Andrew Weissmann
Andrew A. Weissmann is an American attorney. Starting in 2015 he became the chief of the criminal fraud section of the U.S. Department of Justice. In June 2017 he was appointed to a management role on the 2017 special counsel team headed by Robert Mueller. To assume that position, Weissmann took a leave from his Department of Justice post. The special counsel's investigation concluded in 2019 and Weissmann went into the private sector.
Jordi Hurtado
Jordi Hurtado Torres is a Spanish radio and television presenter and voice actor. He is popular in Spain thanks to Televisión Española shows like Saber y ganar.
Don Nomura
Don Katsuaki Nomura is a sports agent who primarily represents Japanese baseball players.
Carol Cheng
Carol Cheng Yu Ling, commonly referred to by her nickname Do Do, is a Hong Kong film and television actress and host. She has won numerous acting awards in both film and television genres, as well as hosting awards. In recent years, she retired from acting but is still involved in hosting. She is frequently the host of TVB Awards Presentation.
Greg Clarke
Gregory Allison Clarke is an English businessman and football administrator, who was chairman of The Football Association from 4 September 2016. He resigned on 10 November 2020 after making offensive comments while talking to MPs. He was elected as the Vice President of FIFA on 7 February 2019 and resigned from this role on 12 November.
Lucélia Santos
Maria Lucélia dos Santos is a Brazilian actress, director and producer. She received international acclaim for her leading role in the 1976 Rede Globo telenovela Isaura, The Slave Girl, broadcast in over 80 countries.
Camille Laurens
Camille Laurens is a French writer and winner of the Prix Femina, 2000, for Dans ces bras-là.
Mark Whitacre
Mark Edward Whitacre is an American business executive who came to public attention in 1995 when, as president of the Decatur, Illinois-based BioProducts Division at Archer Daniels Midland (ADM), he became the highest-level corporate executive in U.S. history to become a Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) whistleblower. For three years (1992–95), Whitacre acted as a cooperating witness for the FBI, which was investigating ADM for price fixing. In the late 1990s Whitacre was sentenced to 9 years in federal prison for embezzling $9.5 million from ADM at the same time he was assisting the federal price-fixing investigation.