List of Famous people who born in 1959

Maria Adelaide Mengas Matafome Ferreira is a Portuguese singer.

Mehmet Ufuk Uras is a Turkish libertarian politician and economist.

Tetsuya Nakashima (中島哲也) is a Japanese film director and screenwriter.

Laila Robins is an American stage, film and television actress. She has appeared in films including Planes, Trains and Automobiles (1987), Live Nude Girls (1995), True Crime (1999), She's Lost Control (2014), and Eye in the Sky (2015). Her television credits include regular roles on Gabriel's Fire, Homeland, and Murder in the First. More recently, she has had recurring roles as Katarina Rostova in season 7 of The Blacklist and as Grace Mallory in The Boys.

Juan Antonio San Epifanio Ruiz, most commonly known as "Epi", is a retired Spanish professional basketball player. He spent all of his club career playing with FC Barcelona. He was named the Mister Europa European Player of the Year in 1984, by the Italian basketball magazine Superbasket, and the Best European Player of the 1980s decade, by the French sports newspaper L'Équipe. He was named one of FIBA's 50 Greatest Players in 1991.

Kei Nakazawa is the professional name of Emiko Honda , a Japanese writer and professor. Nakazawa has won the Gunzo Prize for New Writers and the Noma Literary New Face Prize, and two of her novels have been adapted for film. Since 2005 she has been a professor of literature at Hosei University.

Attila Doğudan is a Turkish and Austrian businessman, CEO of the Vienna-based Do & Co catering company.

James Kabarebe is a Rwandan military officer who has served as a Senior Presidential Adviser on security matters in the government of Rwanda, since 19 October 2018.

Julius Meinl V is a British businessman, resident in Prague Czech Republic. He heads a substantial family business which was originally built upon the production and retailing of food products, and which was founded by his great-great-grandfather, Julius Meinl I, in Vienna in 1862.

Mohamed Aujjar is a Moroccan politician of the National Rally of Independents party. Mr. Mohamed Aujjar, appointed by His Majesty King Mohammed VI, Minister of Justice, on Wednesday, April 5, 2017.