List of Famous people who born in 1959

Ian Stephen McCulloch is an English singer-songwriter and musician, best known as the frontman of the rock group Echo & the Bunnymen.

Éric Fassin is a French sociologist.

Anthony M. LaPaglia is an Australian actor.

Sabine Thillaye is a French-German entrepreneur and politician who has been serving as a member of the French National Assembly since 18 June 2017, representing the 5th constituency of the departement of Indre-et-Loire. She was elected as a member of La République En Marche!, but left the party in 2020 and was one of the 17 initial members of the new Ecology Democracy Solidarity group in the National Assembly.

Surat Davud oglu Huseynov is an Azerbaijani colonel and ex-Prime Minister of Azerbaijan, who rose to prominence during the First Nagorno-Karabakh War. His military career led, in 1993, to his rise to Prime Minister and later prison term.

Silvia Wadhwa is a German financial journalist. She previously worked for CNBC Europe in Frankfurt. She reported daily from the Frankfurt Stock Exchange, and provided German language business news updates for the N24 news channel. Wadhwa was also the network's European Central Bank correspondent, reporting from the bank's headquarters on days of Interest rate decisions and attending the subsequent press conferences. In December 2007 she began writing a blog, €urocentric, for CNBC.com.

David Charles Robert Manners, 11th Duke of Rutland, is a British peer and landowner.

Henrique Cymerman Benarroch is an Israeli journalist of Portuguese and Spanish origin who works as a correspondent in the Middle East for SIC, La Vanguardia and Mediaset España, among others. He works in five languages: English, Spanish, Portuguese, French and Hebrew. He is the President of the Chamber of Commerce and Industry between Israel and The GCC.

Rosette is a French actress and producer.

Gérard Prêcheur is a French football manager. Previously in charge of Olympique Lyonnais Féminin, Prêcheur now plies his trade in Jiangsu Suning, as a manager of the women's team.