List of Famous people who born in 1959

Kathryn Patricia "Kay" Hire is a former NASA astronaut and Captain in the U.S. Navy Reserve who has flown aboard two Space Shuttle missions.

Hammouda Youssef Sabbagh is a Syrian politician who has been the Speaker of the People's Council of Syria since September 2017. He is the first Syriac Orthodox Christian to have held the post, and overall the second Christian to hold that post since Fares al-Khoury. He was elected speaker of parliament with 193 votes out of 252.

Marcel Boekhoorn is a Dutch entrepreneur, investor, philanthropist and owner of investment company Ramphastos Investments. Boekhoorn has a wide array of business interests in the Netherlands and beyond. With an estimated net worth of €1.9 billion, Boekhoorn is one of the wealthiest individuals in the Netherlands.

Mahmud Abouhalima is a convicted perpetrator of the 1993 World Trade Center bombing.

Alexander Alexeevich Veledinsky is a Russian film director and screenwriter. He directed several films, but is most famous for The Geographer Drank His Globe Away (2013). The film won five Nika Awards, five prizes at Kinotavr festival, and many other awards.