List of Famous people who born in 1959

Nancy Laura Savoca is an American film director, producer, and screenwriter.

Fung Wai-wah is a Hong Kong educator, social worker and activist. He is the final president of the Hong Kong Professional Teachers' Union (HKPTU), the largest teachers' union in the territory which disbanded in August 2021, and the former convenor of the Alliance for Universal Suffrage, a pro-democracy coalition on the issue of the 2017 and 2020 universal suffrage.

Lutz Dombrowski is a former German track and field athlete and Olympic champion.

Milcho Manchevski is a New York-based Macedonian film director, photographer and artist.

Joel McNeely is an American composer, arranger, musician, lyricist, and record producer. A protégé of composer Jerry Goldsmith, he is best known for his film and television scores. He won the Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Music Composition for a Series for his work on The Young Indiana Jones Chronicles. He frequently collaborates with Seth MacFarlane and contributes to various projects by The Walt Disney Company.

Santiago Alba Rico is a Spanish writer and philosopher. He has lived in Tunisia for much of the 21st-century. He is known for essays such as Las reglas del caos, Leer con niños or Capitalismo y nihilismo.