List of Famous people who born in 1959
Heinz Günthardt
Heinz Peter Günthardt is a retired tennis player from Switzerland.
Marcelo Tas
Marcelo Tristão Athayde de Souza, better known as Marcelo Tas, is a Brazilian director, writer, actor and television host. He was the main host of Torcedores.com for the coverage of the 2018 Soccer World Cup in Russia. Before that: children series "Ra-Tim-Bum" ; "Ernesto Varela, the Reporter" ; Telecurso ; and the anchor for 7 years at the humor show CQC (Band). Tas is the creator and presenter of the YouTube channel DESCOMPLICADO, in a commercial and content partnership with the Udacity. Lecturer and professor at IBMEC São Paulo on the virtues, opportunities and side effects of the digital age.
Sergey Ivanovich Morozov
Sergey Ivanovich Morozov is the governor of Ulyanovsk Oblast in Russia. He was elected in 2004; his term started in 2005.
Kenko Matsuki
Kenko Matsuki / Shizuhiro Matsuki is a Japanese politician and a former member of the House of Representatives in the Diet.
Amin H. Al-Nasser
Amin Hassan Nasser is the President and CEO of the Saudi Arabian oil company, the world’s largest oil producer. He was acting president and chief executive until September 2015, when he assumed the position permanently.
Michel Piery
Michel Peiry, known as The Sadist of Romont, is a Swiss serial killer who killed 5 people between 1981 and 1987.
Gérard Biard
Gérard Biard is a French journalist. He is the editor‑in‑chief of the satirical French news magazine, Charlie Hebdo.
Volodymyr Zamana
Volodymyr Zamana is a Ukrainian colonel general, Chief of the General Staff in 2012-2014. On 19 February 2014, at the height of the February 2014 Euromaidan riots, president Viktor Yanukovych dismissed Zamana from his position as Chief of the General Staff, replacing him with pro-russian Admiral Yuriy Ilyin. After Yanukovych fled the country for Russia, Zamana was installed as a parliamentary commissioner in control of defence minister by the Parliament of Ukraine on 22 February 2014.
Tu Men
Tu Men is a Chinese actor. He is known for his portrayals of Genghis Khan in films such as Genghis Khan and An End to Killing. In 2018 he eas at the center of a political dispute after referring to Taiwan as “Taiwan, China” drawing a rebuke from the leader of the Taiwan authorities.
Mauricio Funes
Carlos Mauricio Funes Cartagena is a Salvadoran politician who was President of El Salvador from 1 June 2009 to 1 June 2014. He won the 2009 presidential election as the candidate of the left-wing Farabundo Martí National Liberation Front (FMLN) political party and took office on 1 June 2009. In July 2019, Funes became a naturalized citizen of Nicaragua, where he and his immediate family have been residing in exile since 2014.