List of Famous people who born in 1959

Gerald "Gerry" Ehrmann is a German football coach and former player who was a goalkeeping coach with 1. FC Kaiserslautern.

Ricardo Alberto Zielinski, is an Argentine football manager and former player. He is the current head coach for Estudiantes de La Plata.

Miyuki Ono (小野みゆき) is a Japanese actress.

Sherif Mounir, , born May 14, 1959, in El Mansoura (المنصورة) in Dakahlia Governorate as Sherif Ahmed Mounir, is a popular Egyptian movie and stage actor.

Şemdin Sakık, nicknamed Semo or Parmaksiz Zeki for having lost a finger while firing a rocket, is a former commander of the Kurdistan Workers' Party (PKK)'s military forces. He is best known for ordering the May 24, 1993 PKK ambush. He has been imprisoned since his capture in Iraqi Kurdistan by Turkish forces in 1998, shortly after his defection to the Kurdistan Democratic Party. He was a key witness in the Ergenekon trials.

Alik Sakharov is a Soviet-born American film and television director. A former Director of Photography, he is an active member of the American Society of Cinematographers (ASC).

Mio Takaki is a Japanese actress and singer.

Bambang Widjojanto is an Indonesian human rights activist. He is the co-founder of the Indonesian Legal Aid Foundation and a "leading advocate for the rights of the indigenous peoples of West Papua". According to The New York Times, his work for indigenous peoples made him "the target of repeated threats and detentions by the Indonesian government".

Marcelo Gleiser is a Brazilian physicist and astronomer. He is currently Professor of Physics and Astronomy at Dartmouth College and a winner of Templeton Prize.

Ritsuko Nemoto is a Japanese actress. From 1983 to 1996, she portrayed the nurse Shiho in Series 7–14 of the long-running prime-time series Ōoka Echizen on the nationwide Tokyo Broadcasting System network. A frequent guest star in jidaigeki roles, she has seven appearances in Mito Kōmon to her credit. Contemporary roles include parts in a 2004 television series spinoff of Castle of Sand and the 1985 Star Tanjō. Ritsuko also acts in two-hour mystery dramas, with roles in the Monday, Wednesday and Saturday prime-time slots.