List of Famous people who born in 1959

Lloyd Glenn McClendon is an American former professional baseball player and coach. He played eight seasons in the MLB, primarily as an outfielder, and was manager of the Pittsburgh Pirates from 2001 to 2005 and Seattle Mariners from 2014 to 2015. He most recently served as the interim manager for the Detroit Tigers in 2020.

Antwone Quenton Fisher is an American director, screenwriter, author, and film producer. His 2001 autobiographical book Finding Fish was a New York Times Best Seller. The 2002 film Antwone Fisher was written by Fisher and directed by Denzel Washington.

Mongi Hamdi is a United Nations official who was appointed interim foreign minister of Tunisia by Prime Minister Mehdi Jomaa. He served from 29 January 2014 until his appointment as Special Representative and Head of the United Nations Multidimensional Integrated Stabilization Mission in Mali by United Nations Secretary-General Ban Ki Moon on 12 December 2014; he resigned from this position after just a year amid difficulties implementing a peace deal and improving security in the north of the country.

Air Marshal Younes Hamed Al-Masri is the minister of Civil Aviation, and was the Commander of the Egyptian Air Force from 2012 until 2018.

Niyazi Kızılyürek is a Turkish Cypriot political scientist. He is, as of 2016, a professor of political history in the University of Cyprus, specialising on the political history of Turkey and Cyprus, and the Dean of the School of Humanities there.

Damianos Kattar is a Lebanese economist and academic who served as the Minister of Finance and Economy in 2005 as well as the Minister of Environment and Administrative Reform in 2020.

Mehmet Hacıoğlu is a former Turkish soccer player and coach of Fenerbahçe PAF. He started his professional football managing career with Erzurumspor and also managed of Gaziosmanpaşaspor and coached of Çaykur Rizespor and Etimesgut Şekerspor. He was working for Fenerbahçe S.K. from 2004 till 2008. He also coached the football team of Sabanci University enjoying an attacking style of 3-2-3-1-2 formation with center-backs double man-marking plus a sweeper. His son İsmail Hacıoğlu is a famous actor and his daughter Kardelen Hacıoğlu is currently residing in Canada, majoring in sociology and minoring in criminology. He played at defence during his professional career. He played for Fenerbahçe (1980–84), Denizlispor (1984–86), Bakırköyspor (1986–93), Beyoğlu Kapalıçarşıspor (1993) and Gaziosmanpaşaspor (1993–94).

Boman Irani is an Indian theatre and Bollywood film actor, voice artist, and photographer of Irani descent. After making his film debut with the 2003 anthology horror film Darna Mana Hai, Irani had his first commercial success with the 2003 comedy Munna Bhai M.B.B.S.

Nikolaos (Nikos) Dendias is a Greek lawyer and politician of the conservative New Democracy party. He is a Member of the Hellenic Parliament for Corfu, and was Minister for National Defence from November 2014 to January 2015. As of 2019, he is the current Foreign Minister of Greece.