List of Famous people who born in 1959

Isabel San Sebastián Cabasés is a Spanish journalist and writer.

Carlos Henrique Schroder is a Brazilian journalist and chief executive officer (CEO) of Rede Globo.

Vital Kamerhe is a Congolese politician who is the chief of staff of President Félix Tshisekedi and leader of the Union for the Congolese Nation (UNC) opposition party. Previously he was the President of the National Assembly of the Democratic Republic of the Congo from 2006 to 2009. After resigning from that office, he went into the opposition and founded the UNC. Kamerhe was a candidate in the 2011 presidential election. In 2018 Kamerhe supported Félix Tshisekedi for president and was made his chief of staff after the election.

Marwan Hasib Ibrahim Barghouti is a Palestinian political figure convicted and imprisoned for murder by an Israeli court. He is regarded as a leader of the First and Second Intifadas. Barghouti at one time supported the peace process, but later became disillusioned, and after 2000 went on to become a leader of the Second Intifada from the West Bank. Barghouti was a leader of Tanzim, a paramilitary offshoot of Fatah.

Takeshi Miyamoto is a member of the Japanese Communist Party serving in the House of Representatives. He is opposed to the policy that increases competitive research funds while cutting grants to post-secondary educational institutions, saying that the policy has forced some institutions to hire retired government officials.

Johannes Chan Man-mun (陳文敏) SC (Hon) is Chair Professor of Law and former Dean of the Faculty of Law (2002-2014) at the University of Hong Kong. He specialises in human rights, constitutional and administrative law, and is the first and only academic silk ever appointed in Hong Kong. He is credited with transforming the University's Faculty of Law into one of the leading law schools in the world during his tenure as Dean.

Vladimir Egorovich Yakovlev is a founder and an editor-in-chief of the Kommersant Newspaper, the first Russian daily business-oriented newspaper. He is a former CEO and owner of Kommersant Publishing house. Yakovlev is considered to be one of the creators of the Post-Soviet format of Russian journalism.

Chen Yixin is a Chinese politician, serving since March 2018 as the Secretary-General of the Central Political and Legal Affairs Commission, former Deputy Communist Party Secretary of Hubei and Party Secretary of Wuhan. He served as the Communist Party Secretary of Wenzhou, a city in Zhejiang province, between 2013 and 2015. Between December 2014 and December 2015, Chen was a member of the Zhejiang Party Standing Committee. Between 2015 and 2016, he was deputy director of the Office of Deepening Reform.

Li Xiaopeng is a Chinese businessman and politician, who is serving as the Minister of Transport. He is the former chief executive of China Huaneng Group, a power generation company. He was also Governor of Shanxi between 2012 and 2016. As the son of former Chinese Premier Li Peng, he is a prominent member of the Chinese princelings.

Alan Pauls is an Argentinian writer, literary critic and screenwriter. An early essay he did on Betrayed by Rita Hayworth by Manuel Puig is said to show his interest in him as an "experimental writer." Although Pauls has expressed skepticism about the avant-garde as any form of program, preferring to see it as a "toolbox." Among his own experimental works is Wasabi from 1994. He also had a longstanding interest in film and his later work El pasado was adapted to film in 2007. He wrote a "History of" trilogy with the titles being History of crying, History of hair, and History of money. He has additionally served as a visiting professor at Princeton University.