List of Famous people who born in 1959

Ernesto Canto Gudiño was a Mexican race walker who mainly competed in the 20 kilometer walk.

Mariano Barroso is a Spanish film director and screenwriter. He has directed 19 films since 1982. His 1996 film Éxtasis was entered into the 46th Berlin International Film Festival.

Oleg Kimovich Vasiliev is a Russian former pair skater who competed internationally for the Soviet Union. With his then-wife Elena Valova, he is the 1984 Olympic champion, 1988 Olympic silver medalist, and three-time World Champion. Their coach throughout their career was Tamara Moskvina. After retiring from competition, Vasiliev became a coach, leading the pair of Tatiana Totmianina / Maxim Marinin to the 2006 Olympic title.

Irene Cara Escalera known professionally as Irene Cara, is an American singer, songwriter, dancer and actress. Cara sang and co-wrote the song "Flashdance... What a Feeling", for which she won an Academy Award for Best Original Song and a Grammy Award for Best Female Pop Vocal Performance in 1984. Cara is also known for playing the role of Coco Hernandez in the 1980 film Fame, and for recording the film's title song "Fame". Prior to her success with Fame, Cara portrayed the title character Sparkle Williams in the original 1976 musical drama film Sparkle.

Galina Gennad'evna Aksenova is a film historian, theatre scholar, director, scenarist, professor and translator. She holds a Candidate of the Arts degree. She is married to actor and director Veniamin Smekhov.

Joseph Jao-yiu Sung is a Hong Kong gastroenterologist and professor who served as the Vice-Chancellor of the Chinese University of Hong Kong (CUHK). Prior to his vice-chancellorship, he was the Associate Dean of the Faculty of Medicine, the Chair Professor of the Department of Medicine and Therapeutics, and the Head of the Shaw College.

Dolors Bassa i Coll is an educator, psychopedagogist and Catalan politician who held the position of Minister of Labour, Social Affairs and Families in the Generalitat de Catalunya until Spain sacked the whole Catalan government on 27 October 2017. She is known for her syndicalist career in the major Spanish trade union, Unión General de Trabajadores. Since March 2018 she was remanded in custody, without bail, by order of the Supreme Court of Spain, accused of sedition and rebellion. She was sentenced on October 14, 2019 to 12 years in gaol for sedition, as being responsible for devoting several thousand public schools to the 1 October 2017 referendum, as polling stations. The Supreme Court turned down her plea for this mistake to be amended so that her sentence - greater than nearly all the other convicted ministers - might be reduced.

Alfonso Ramírez Cuéllar is a Mexican politician affiliated with the National Regeneration Movement. As of 2014 he served as Deputy of the LVII and LIX Legislatures of the Mexican Congress representing Zacatecas.

Caroline Cruice Goodall is an English actress and screenwriter. She was nominated for AFI Awards for her roles in the 1989 miniseries Cassidy, and the 1995 film Hotel Sorrento. Her other film appearances include Hook (1991), Cliffhanger (1993), Schindler's List (1993), Disclosure (1994), White Squall (1996), The Princess Diaries (2001) and The Best of Me (2014).