List of Famous people who born in 1959

Peter Doig is a Scottish painter. One of the most renowned living figurative painters, he has settled in Trinidad since 2002. In 2007, his painting White Canoe sold at Sotheby's for $11.3 million, then an auction record for a living European artist. In February 2013, his painting, The Architect's Home in the Ravine, sold for $12 million at a London auction. Art critic Jonathan Jones said about him: "Amid all the nonsense, impostors, rhetorical bullshit and sheer trash that pass for art in the 21st century, Doig is a jewel of genuine imagination, sincere work and humble creativity."

Thomas Krüger is a German politician. He is the President of the Federal Agency for Civil Education and the President of the German Children's Fund. He served as the final Lord Mayor of East Berlin in 1991.

Emi Kathleen Watanabe is a Japanese former competitive figure skater who is the 1979 World bronze medalist and an eight-time Japanese national champion. She was the first skater to medal for Japan in ladies' singles at the World Championships.

Steve Blame is a British television presenter and screenwriter. He was the news editor and presenter between 1987 and 1994 for the television channel MTV.

Ana Mato Adrover is a Spanish politician. From 2011 to 2014 she served as Spain's Minister of Health, Social Services and Equality in the Rajoy Cabinet. On 26 November 2014 she resigned due to the involvement of herself and her husband Jesús Sepúlveda in the Gürtel case.

Alfonso Pons Ezquerra, better known as Sito Pons, is a Spanish former professional Grand Prix motorcycle racer. He competed in the FIM motorcycle Grand Prix world championships from 1981 to 1991. Pons is notable for winning two consecutive 250cc road racing world championships in 1988 and 1989.

Mahmud-Ali Maksharipovich Kalimatov, is a Kazakh-born Ingush politician and government official. He was appointed as the acting Head of Ingushetia on 26 June 2019 by the Russian President Vladimir Putin on 26 June 2019 and was elected as the head of the republic on 8 September 2019.

Victor Ivanovych Hvozd was a Chief of the Main Intelligence Directorate of the Ministry of Defense of Ukraine and a Chairman of the Foreign Intelligence Service of Ukraine.

Deborah Sasson real name Deborah Ann O'Brien, is an American operatic soprano and musical theatre actress mostly active in Germany.

Thomas Allofs is a retired German footballer who played as a striker.