List of Famous people who born in 1959

Catherine Poulain is a French writer.

Dilian Francisca Toro Torres is a Colombian physician and politician, she served as Senator of Colombia from 2002 to 2013. She was investigated by the Supreme Court of Justice of Colombia on charges of money laundering, and remained under preventive detention from 25 July 2012 to 1 August 2013 at the Police Centre for Higher Studies (Cespo) in Bogotá. She currently serves as Governor of Valle del Cauca Department.

Raymond Thiry is a Dutch actor. He has appeared in more than eighty films since 1994.

Chan Kin-man is a former associate professor of Sociology at the Chinese University of Hong Kong. He is one of the founders of the Occupy Central with Love and Peace campaign that strove for universal suffrage for the Hong Kong Chief Executive Election in 2017.

Sergey Aleksandrovich Shipilov (born May 17, 1959, in Arkhangelsk, RSFSR), known as the "Velsk Chikatilo", is a Russian rapist and serial killer sentenced to life imprisonment for 14 murders and nine rapes. Most of his murders took place in the town of Velsk. The majority of his victims were women that he raped before killing.

Morinari Watanabe is a Japanese businessman who has served as president of the Fédération Internationale de Gymnastique since January 2017. Prior to his election in October 2016, he served as general-secretary of the Japan Gymnastics Association (2009–16) and was on multiple committees with the Japanese Olympic Committee.

Günter Nooke is a German CDU politician and a former civil rights activist.

Beverly Jo Scott, also known as B. J. Scott, is an American-born singer-songwriter living in Brussels, Belgium.

Haja Zainab Hawa Bangura is a Sierra Leonean politician and social activist who has been serving as the Director-General of the United Nations Office at Nairobi(UNON) since 2018, appointed by United Nations Secretary-General António Guterres. She served as the second United Nations Special Representative on Sexual Violence in Conflict with the rank of Under-Secretary-General of the United Nations from 2012 to 2017, in succession to the first holder of the post, Margot Wallström. In 2017 she was succeeded by Pramila Patten.

Paul Tse Wai-chun, JP is a Hong Kong solicitor, who claims himself as the "Superman of Law". He also owns a small travel agency and was elected to the Legislative Council of Hong Kong for the tourism functional constituency in the 2008 legislative election. He is known for his relationship with celebrity and radio host Pamela Peck. Tse is of Hakka ancestry.