List of Famous people who born in 1959

Tarek Alarabi Tourgane is a Syrian composer and singer of Algerian descent, best known for composing the theme songs for animated series in the Arab world.

Michele Little is a former actress, best known for her appearances in the 1980s and early 1990s. She retired in 1995 to raise a family after giving birth to a daughter by husband Brett Cullen.

Ilan Kapoor is a professor of Critical Development Studies at the Faculty of Environmental and Urban Change, York University, Toronto, Ontario, Canada. He is an influential postcolonial scholar, considered one of the first to bring both psychoanalysis and postcolonial analysis to the field of Development Studies. He is the author of four books and numerous articles on postcolonial politics, psychoanalysis, participatory development, and celebrity humanitarianism.

Per Naroskin, is a Swedish psychologist, pscychotherapist, author and stand-up comedian. Naroskin participated in different shoew at Sveriges Radio, such as Studio Ett, Spanarna, and Jonas Val, and in 2006 he presented an episode of the SR show Sommar i P1 where he spoke about his life. He has also participated in the SVT show Fråga Doktorn.

Lee Chung-Hee is a retired South Korean basketball player.

Dr. Bibi Ameenah Firdaus Gurib-Fakim GCSK is a Mauritian politician and biodiversity scientist who served as the 6th President of Mauritius from 2015 to 2018. In December 2014, she was selected to be the presidential candidate of the Alliance Lepep. After Kailash Purryag resigned on 29 May 2015, both Prime Minister Sir Anerood Jugnauth and Leader of the Opposition Paul Berenger positively welcomed her nomination, which was unanimously approved in a vote in the National Assembly.

François Chau is an American actor. He is known for his roles as Dr. Pierre Chang in ABC's Lost, Dr. Chang in the film 21 & Over and, since 2015, as industrialist Jules-Pierre Mao, a recurring character in Amazon's The Expanse.