List of Famous people who born in 1959

George Crin Laurențiu Antonescu is a Romanian politician, who was President of the National Liberal Party (PNL) from 2009 to 2014. He also served as the country Acting President after the suspension of Traian Basescu and as the President of the Senate.

Frank Cottrell-Boyce is an English screenwriter, novelist and occasional actor, known for his children's fiction and for his collaborations with film director Danny Boyle. He has achieved fame as the writer for the 2012 Summer Olympics opening ceremony and for sequels to Chitty Chitty Bang Bang: The Magical Car, a children's classic by Ian Fleming.

Deborah Rennard is an American actress, writer and producer, best known for her role as Sly Lovegren in Dallas (1981–1991).

Arthur Carlton Cuse is an American screenwriter, producer, and director, best known for the American television series Lost, for which he made the Time list of the 100 most influential people in the world in 2010. Cuse is known for his transmedia storytelling, collaborative achievements, and mentorship of many screenwriters who went on to become showrunners of television series.

Tamara Elizabeth "Tammy" Jernigan is an American astrophysicist and former NASA astronaut. During her career she completed five Space Shuttle program missions, logging over 1512 hours in space. Jernigan left NASA in 2001 and currently serves as Deputy Principal Associate Director in the Weapons and Complex Integration (WCI) organization at Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory.

Gudrun Brendel-Fischer is a German politician, representative of the Christian Social Union of Bavaria. She is a representative of the district of Bayreuth in the Bavarian State Parliament.

Gary Roger Rydstrom is an American sound designer and director. He has been nominated for 19 Academy Awards for his work in sound for movies, winning 7.

Anton Apriantono is an Indonesian academician who was Indonesia's Minister of Agriculture between October 2004 and October 2009. He studied at the University of Reading and currently is a faculty in Department of Food Science and Technology at Bogor Agricultural University.