List of Famous people who born in 1959

Souren Barseghyan is an Armenian association football manager, who managed the Armenia national team during UEFA Euro 2000 qualifying in 1998-99. He was the head coach of Mika Yerevan. Barseghyan also managed FC Kotayk Abovian in the Soviet First League and several Armenian Premier League clubs like Gandzasar Kapan, Ulisses and Mika Yerevan in the past.

Ljudmila Novak is a Slovenian politician and a former Member of the European Parliament. She is the president of the New Slovenia – Christian People's Party. Since 21 December 2011, she has been the vice-president of the Slovenian National Assembly.

José Luis Escobar Alas, Archbishop of San Salvador in El Salvador, succeeded Archbishop Emeritus Fernando Sáenz Lacalle as the seventh archbishop, a successor of Archbishop Óscar Romero who was assassinated in 1980.