List of Famous people who born in 1959

Aleksandar "Aco" Petrović is a Croatian professional basketball coach and former player who last served as the head coach of the Victoria Libertas Pesaro of the Italian Serie A.

Fuyumi Soryo is a Japanese manga artist from Beppu, Oita, Japan. She is a graduate of the Oita prefectural Geijutsu Midorigaoka High School.

Kenan İpek is a Turkish legal prosecutor and judge who served as the Minister of Justice of Turkey from 7 March to 17 November 2015. Having previously served as the Undersecretary to the Justice Ministry, İpek succeeded the Justice and Development Party minister Bekir Bozdağ as the Minister of Justice in accordance to Article 114 of the Turkish Constitution three months before the June 2015 general election. He is, formally, of no political affiliation, and concurrently served as the President of the Supreme Board of Judges and Prosecutors during his time as Minister.

Baghdad Kultaevich Amreyev is the Secretary-General of the Organization of Turkic States, as well as a Kazakh political figure and diplomat.

Viktor Nikolaevich Bondarev is a Colonel General and former Commander of the Russian Aerospace Forces, and the former Commander-in-Chief of the Air Force branch of the Aerospace Forces. He replaced Alexander Zelin, who was dismissed from the military on 27 April 2012.

Hubert Velud is a French former Association football player and the current manager of Sudan national football team, following his departure from JS Kabylie mid season 2019–20.

Carlos Hernán Peña González is a lawyer and university professor who is since 2005 rector of the Diego Portales University and Sunday columnist of El Mercurio. Peña is also vicepresident of CIPER Chile; member of the directory of Fundación Nicanor Parra; Counsellor of Teatro Municipal de Santiago; member of the directory of Museo de la Memoria y los Derechos Humanos and member of the Comisión de Verdad Histórica y Nuevo Trato con los Pueblos Indígenas (2001-2003). He was also a government advisor in the Reforma Procesal Penal (1994-2000) and family law (1989-1994).

Tatsuo Kamon , real name Tatsuo Torikai , is a Japanese singer-songwriter born 25 March 1959 in Ibaraki, Osaka Prefecture, Japan. He is represented by the talent management firm Daikan'yama Production, and releases works through Daipro-X, a record company which is a subsidiary of Daikan'yama.

François Lamy is a French politician who, until his appointment as Junior Minister for Urban Affairs at the newly created Ministry of Territorial Equality and Housing by President François Hollande on 16 May 2012, was a member of the National Assembly of France where he represented the 6th constituency of Essonne on behalf of the Socialist Party.

Thomas Strothotte is a German-Canadian computer scientist and university administrator living in Germany. He is the President of the Kühne Logistics University in Hamburg.