List of Famous people who born in 1959

Maryline Desbiolles is a French writer and winner of the Prix Femina, 1999, for Anchise.

Michael Hughes is a Canadian rower. He won a bronze medal in the Quadruple Sculls event at the 1984 Summer Olympics.

Floriano Peixoto Cordeiro de Farias, known as Floriano Peixoto is a Brazilian film and television actor from Rio de Janeiro.

Takao Makino is a Japanese politician of the Liberal Democratic Party, a member of the House of Councillors in the Diet. A graduate of Waseda University and former member of the assembly of Shizuoka Prefecture, he was elected to the House of Councillors for the first time in 2007.

Nabil Benabdallah is a Moroccan politician who has served as Minister of Housing and Urbanism of Morocco since 2012, as part of the cabinet of Abdelilah Benkirane.

Alexandra Hildebrandt is a German human rights activist and museum director of the Checkpoint Charlie Museum. In 1995, she married the museum's co-founder and former director Rainer Hildebrandt, and they remained married until his death in 2004. She is internationally noted for leading the construction of the Freedom Memorial, which was controversially demolished in 2005. The focus of Alexandra Hildebrandt's work is the preservation and advancement of the Checkpoint Charlie Museum, the rehabilitation of the victims of the GDR-Regime, and the clarification of more destinies of refugees who suffered death at the East-West border. In 2004 she endowed the international human rights award, the Dr. Rainer Hildebrandt Medal, which is given annually in recognition of extraordinary, non-violent commitment to human rights.

Margarete Bause is a German politician of Alliance 90/The Greens. She was a member of the Landtag of Bavaria from 1986 to 1990 and from 2003 to 2017. In 2017, she was elected a member of the Bundestag, where she is the Green party group's spokeswoman for human rights and humanitarian aid.

Georg Nolte is a German jurist and Judge-Elect of the International Court of Justice. He is professor of public international law at the Humboldt University of Berlin and has been a member of the UN's International Law Commission since 2007, serving as its chairman in 2017. In November 2020 he was elected Judge of the International Court of Justice by the United Nations General Assembly and the Security Council, and he takes office on 6 February 2021.

Viktor Alexandrovich Verzhbitsky born 21 September 1959, in Tashkent, Soviet Union is an Uzbekistani-Russian film and stage actor. He is well known for playing mobsters, businessmen, and villains and he is well known for playing the role of Zavulon in the 2004 film Night Watch and its 2006 sequel Day Watch.

Daniel Joshua Kash is a Canadian actor and film director.