List of Famous people who born in 1959

Didier Quillot is a French businessman, and a former Chief Executive of Orange France, and since 2016 the Chief Executive of France's Ligue de Football Professionnel.

Salomón Jara Cruz is a Mexican politician affiliated with National Regeneration Movement and serving as a senator in the LXIV Legislature of the Mexican Congress from the state of Oaxaca. Under the PRD, he had previously been a senator of the LX and LXI Legislatures. He also served as Deputy between 1991 and 1994.

Vladimir Alexandrovich Sterzhakov is a Soviet and Russian actor of theater and cinema.

Kiyotaka Sugiyama is a Japanese singer-songwriter.

Koichi Kawanishi is a Japanese drummer who is a member of the Japanese band Unicorn.

Khadja Nin is a Burundian singer and musician.

Luiz Marinho is a Brazilian politician and unionist. He was minister of Labor and Employment and minister of Social Security in the government of president Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva. He also was mayor of São Bernardo do Campo between 2009 and 2017.

Gilmar Luís Rinaldi, is a Brazilian former footballer who played as a goalkeeper, and a current football agent of such players as Adriano.

Reha Muhtar is a Turkish anchorman, columnist and television reporter of Iraqi Turkmen descent.

Elias Sekgobelo "Ace" Magashule is a South African politician and an anti-apartheid activist who is the current Secretary General of the African National Congress. He served as the Premier of the Free State, one of South Africa's nine provinces, from 2009 until 2018.