| Birth Date | Who | Who are they? |
| 01/01/1955 | Mario Andreacchio | Australian film director |
| 01/02/1955 | Tex Brashear | Voice actor |
| 01/02/1955 | Vivien Savage | French singer |
| 01/06/1955 | Rowan Atkinson | English comedian and actor |
| 01/13/1955 | Jay McInerney | American writer |
| 01/13/1955 | Mami Koyama | Japanese voice actress |
| 01/13/1955 | Paul Kelly | Australian musician |
| 01/13/1955 | Ran Ito | Japanese actress |
| 01/13/1955 | Steve Earle | American musician |
| 01/18/1955 | Kevin Costner | American actor |
| 01/19/1955 | Sir Simon Rattle | English conductor |
| 01/20/1955 | Hiromi Ota | Japanese singer |
| 01/20/1955 | Joe Doherty | Provisional Irish Republican Army member |
| 01/21/1955 | Jeff Koons | American artist |
| 01/22/1955 | Keiko Takahashi | Japanese actress |
| 01/26/1955 | Eddie Van Halen | Dutch-born rock musician (Van Halen) |
| 01/27/1955 | Alexander Stuart | British author |
| 01/27/1955 | John Roberts | Chief Justice of the United States |
| 01/28/1955 | George Tokoro | Japanese TV personality and singer-songwriter |
| 01/28/1955 | Nicolas Sarkozy | President of France |
| 01/28/1955 | Vinod Khosla | venture capitalist |
| 02/02/1955 | Leszek Engelking | Polish poet, writer and translator |
| 02/03/1955 | Kirsty Wark | Scottish television presenter |
| 02/06/1955 | Michael Pollan | American journalist |
| 02/07/1955 | Miguel Ferrer | American actor |
| 02/08/1955 | Charles Shaughnessy | British Actor |
| 02/08/1955 | John Grisham | American novelist |
| 02/08/1955 | Xu Bing | Chinese artist |
| 02/10/1955 | Chris Adams | British professional wrestler and judoka (d. 2001) |
| 02/10/1955 | Greg Norman | Australian golfer |
| 02/12/1955 | Ai Sato | Japanese voice actress |
| 02/12/1955 | Arsenio Hall | American actor and talk show host |
| 02/13/1955 | Akiko Yano | Japanese singer-songwriter |
| 02/15/1955 | Christopher McDonald | American actor |
| 02/17/1955 | Mo Yan | Chinese writer |
| 02/19/1955 | Jeff Daniels | American actor |
| 02/20/1955 | Kelsey Grammer | American actor |
| 02/23/1955 | Flip Saunders | American basketball coach |
| 02/23/1955 | Howard Jones | English musician |
| 02/24/1955 | Alain Prost | French race car driver |
| 02/24/1955 | Steve Jobs | American computer pioneer |
| 03/02/1955 | Jay Osmond | American pop singer |
| 03/02/1955 | Shoko Asahara | Japanese cult leader (Aum Shinrikyo) |
| 03/03/1955 | Kent Derricott | Canadian TV personality in Japan |
| 03/04/1955 | Dominique Pinon | French actor |
| 03/05/1955 | Julien Dray | French politician |
| 03/05/1955 | Penn Jillette | American magician and comedian |
| 03/06/1955 | Alberta Watson | Canadian actress |
| 03/07/1955 | Tommy Kramer | American football player |
| 03/08/1955 | Don Ashby | Canadian ice hockey player (d. 1981) |
| 03/09/1955 | Franco Uncini | Italian motorcycle racer |
| 03/10/1955 | Youssra | Egyptian actress and singer |
| 03/11/1955 | Nina Hagen | German pop star |
| 03/13/1955 | Bruno Conti | Italian football player |
| 03/15/1955 | Dee Snider | American rock singer (Twisted Sister) |
| 03/15/1955 | Robert Kabbas | Australian weightlifter |
| 03/16/1955 | Bruno Barreto | Brazilian film director |
| 03/16/1955 | Jiro Watanabe | Japanese boxer |
| 03/17/1955 | Gary Sinise | American actor |
| 03/18/1955 | Dwayne Murphy | American baseball player |
| 03/18/1955 | Guillermo Dávila | Venezuelan actor and singer |
| 03/19/1955 | Bruce Willis | American actor |
| 03/19/1955 | Simon Yam | Hong Kong actor |
| 03/20/1955 | Mariya Takeuchi | Japanese singer-songwriter |
| 03/21/1955 | Philippe Troussier | French football coach |
| 03/22/1955 | Lena Olin | Swedish actress |
| 03/22/1955 | Pete Sessions | American politician |
| 03/22/1955 | Valdis Zatlers | president of Latvia |
| 03/23/1955 | Moses Malone | American basketball player |
| 03/23/1955 | Tom Bodett | Voice Actor, radio personality, & writer |
| 03/26/1955 | Danny Arndt | Canadian ice hockey player |
| 03/28/1955 | John Alderdice | Irish politician |
| 03/28/1955 | Reba McEntire | American singer and actress |
| 03/29/1955 | Brendan Gleeson | Irish actor |
| 03/29/1955 | Earl Campbell | American football player |
| 03/30/1955 | Paul Reiser | American actor |
| 03/31/1955 | Angus Young | Australian rock guitarist (AC/DC) |
| 04/03/1955 | Mick Mars | American musician with Motley Crue |
| 04/05/1955 | Akira Toriyama | Japanese manga artist |
| 04/05/1955 | Janice Long | British radio disc jockey |
| 04/06/1955 | Janet Ellis | British children's TV presenter |
| 04/06/1955 | Michael Rooker | American actor |
| 04/07/1955 | Akira Nishino | Japanese soccer player and manager |
| 04/07/1955 | Gregg Jarrett | American lawyer turned journalist |
| 04/07/1955 | Werner Stocker | German actor (d. 1993) |
| 04/08/1955 | Barbara Kingsolver | American fiction writer |
| 04/08/1955 | Kane Hodder | American actor |
| 04/09/1955 | Kate Heyhoe | American food writer |
| 04/11/1955 | Kevin Brady | American politician |
| 04/13/1955 | Hideki Saijo | Japanese singer and actor |
| 04/13/1955 | Steve Camp | American Christian musician |
| 04/15/1955 | Dodi Al-Fayed | Egyptian businessman (d. 1997) |
| 04/16/1955 | Grand Duke Henri of Luxembourg | |
| 04/18/1955 | Bobby Castillo | American baseball player |
| 04/20/1955 | Seema Mustafa | Indian politician and journalist |
| 04/21/1955 | Ebiet G Ade | Indonesian singer and songwriter |
| 04/21/1955 | Toninho Cerezo | Brazilian footballer and coach |
| 04/23/1955 | Fumi Hirano | Japanese voice actress and essayist |
| 04/23/1955 | Judy Davis | Australian actress |
| 04/23/1955 | Tony Miles | English chess player (d. 2001) |
| 04/24/1955 | John de Mol | Dutch media tycoon |
| 04/25/1955 | John Nunn | English chess player and mathematician |
| 04/25/1955 | Parviz Parastui | Iranian actor |
| 04/26/1955 | Chen Daoming | Chinese actor |
| 04/28/1955 | Eddie Jobson | English musician |
| 04/29/1955 | Kate Mulgrew | American actress |
| 04/29/1955 | Wendee Lee | American voice actress |
| 04/29/1955 | Yuko Tanaka | Japanese actress |
| 05/01/1955 | Ray Buttigieg | Maltese composer and poet |
| 05/02/1955 | Dave Winer | American software pioneer |
| 05/02/1955 | Donatella Versace | Italian designer |
| 05/02/1955 | Robert Ellis Orrall | American singer |
| 05/02/1955 | Willie Miller | Scottish footballer |
| 05/03/1955 | David Hookes | Australian cricketer (d. 2004) |
| 05/03/1955 | Steve Jones | Guitarist for The Sex Pistols |
| 05/04/1955 | Avram Grant | Israeli football manager |
| 05/06/1955 | Tom Bergeron | American television host |
| 05/08/1955 | Meles Zenawi | Prime Minister of Ethiopia |
| 05/09/1955 | Anne-Sofie von Otter | Swedish mezzo-soprano |
| 05/10/1955 | Chris Berman | American sports broadcaster (ABC Sports) |
| 05/10/1955 | Mark David Chapman | American murderer of John Lennon |
| 05/16/1955 | Debra Winger | American actress |
| 05/16/1955 | Hazel O'Connor | British singer |
| 05/16/1955 | Jack Morris | American baseball player |
| 05/16/1955 | Olga Korbut | Russian gymnast |
| 05/17/1955 | Bill Paxton | American actor |
| 05/18/1955 | Chow Yun-Fat | Hong Kong actor |
| 05/19/1955 | James Gosling | Canadian software engineer |
| 05/20/1955 | Diego Abatantuono | Italian actor |
| 05/20/1955 | Zbigniew Preisner | Polish film composer |
| 05/22/1955 | Chalmers "Spanky" Alford | American jazz guitarist (d. 2008) |
| 05/22/1955 | Dale Winton | English radio DJ and television presenter |
| 05/24/1955 | Rosanne Cash | American entertainer |
| 05/24/1955 | Rumiko Ukai | Japanese voice actress |
| 05/25/1955 | Connie Sellecca | American actress and wife of John Tesh |
| 05/25/1955 | Suguru Egawa | Japanese baseball player |
| 05/26/1955 | Doris Dörrie | German actress and screenplay writer |
| 05/26/1955 | Masaharu Morimoto | Japanese chef |
| 05/30/1955 | Nakamura Kanzaburo XVIII | Japanese Kabuki actor |
| 05/30/1955 | Topper Headon | Drummer for The Clash |
| 05/31/1955 | Tommy Emmanuel | Australian guitarist (CGP) |
| 06/01/1955 | Chiyonofuji Mitsugu | Japanese sumo wrestler (58th Yokozuna grand champion) |
| 06/02/1955 | Dana Carvey | American actor and comedian |
| 06/05/1955 | Fernando Borrego Linares | Cuban singer and songwriter (aka Polo Montañez) |
| 06/06/1955 | Chris Nyman | American baseball player |
| 06/06/1955 | Sandra Bernhard | American comedian, actress, author and singer |
| 06/07/1955 | Tim Richmond | American race car driver (d. 1989) |
| 06/08/1955 | Tim Berners-Lee | English inventor of the World Wide Web |
| 06/10/1955 | Andrew Stevens | American actor and film producer |
| 06/10/1955 | Floyd Bannister | American baseball player |
| 06/14/1955 | Kim Lankford | American actress, businesswoman and horse wrangler |
| 06/14/1955 | Paul O'Grady | English talk show host and comedian |
| 06/16/1955 | Laurie Metcalf | American actress |
| 06/18/1955 | Sandy Allen | American, world's tallest woman (d. 2008) |
| 06/20/1955 | Tor Norretranders | Danish author |
| 06/21/1955 | Aloysius Amwano | Nauruan politician |
| 06/21/1955 | Jean-Pierre Mader | French singer-songwriter |
| 06/21/1955 | Michel Platini | French football player |
| 06/21/1955 | Tim Bray | Canadian computer programmer |
| 06/22/1955 | Glenn Danzig | American rock singer (The Misfits, Samhain, Danzig) |
| 06/23/1955 | Alan J. Gow | British motorsport executive |
| 06/24/1955 | Gurumayi Chidvilasananda | Indian head of Siddha Yoga |
| 06/26/1955 | Mick Jones | Guitarist for The Clash and Big Audio Dynamite |
| 06/26/1955 | Yoko Gushiken | Japanese boxer |
| 06/27/1955 | Isabelle Adjani | French actress |
| 06/30/1955 | David Alan Grier | American actor and comedian |
| 07/01/1955 | Lisa Scottoline | American novelist |
| 07/01/1955 | Sanma Akashiya | Japanese comedian and actor |
| 07/02/1955 | Stephen Walt | American political scientist |
| 07/03/1955 | Matt Keough | American baseball player |
| 07/08/1955 | Mihaela Mitrache | Romanian actress |
| 07/09/1955 | Fred Norris | American radio personality |
| 07/09/1955 | Jimmy Smits | American actor |
| 07/18/1955 | Bernd Fasching | Austrian painter and sculptor |
| 07/21/1955 | Howie Epstein | American musician and producer (d. 2003) |
| 07/22/1955 | Asif Ali Zardari | Pakistani politician |
| 07/22/1955 | Willem Dafoe | American actor |
| 07/26/1955 | Michele Pillar | American Christian musician |
| 07/27/1955 | Allan Border | Australian cricketer |
| 07/31/1955 | Jakie Quartz | French singer |
| 08/02/1955 | Caleb Carr | American writer |
| 08/04/1955 | Billy Bob Thornton | American actor |
| 08/04/1955 | Gerrie Coetzee | South African boxer |
| 08/06/1955 | Gordon J. Brand | English golfer |
| 08/06/1955 | Ron Davis | American baseball player |
| 08/07/1955 | Vladimir Sorokin | Russian writer |
| 08/08/1955 | Diddú (Sigrún Hjálmtýsdóttir) | Icelandic soprano and songwriter |
| 08/09/1955 | Doug Williams | American football quarterback |
| 08/13/1955 | Daryl | American magician |
| 08/17/1955 | Richard Hilton | American businessman |
| 08/19/1955 | Peter Gallagher | American actor |
| 08/19/1955 | Terry Harper | American baseball player |
| 08/20/1955 | Agnes Chan | Hong Kong born TV personality in Japan |
| 08/22/1955 | Chiranjeevi | Indian actor |
| 08/24/1955 | Mike Huckabee | American politician, former Governor and 2008 Presidential candidate |
| 08/27/1955 | Laura Fygi | Dutch singer |
| 08/27/1955 | Sergey Khlebnikov | Soviet (Russian) speed skater (d. 1999) |
| 08/30/1955 | Mayumi Muroyama | Japanese manga artist |
| 08/31/1955 | Edwin Moses | American athlete |
| 09/01/1955 | Billy Blanks | American martial artist, inventor of the Tae Bo |
| 09/01/1955 | Bruce Foxton | English musician |
| 09/02/1955 | Natalya Petrusyova | Soviet (Russian) speed skater |
| 09/02/1955 | Robert Duncan | American astrophysicist |
| 09/04/1955 | Hiroshi Izawa | Japanese actor |
| 09/06/1955 | Raymond Benson | American author |
| 09/07/1955 | Efim Zelmanov | Russian mathematician |
| 09/09/1955 | John Kricfalusi | Canadian cartoonist |
| 09/15/1955 | Renzo Rosso | Italian clothing designer |
| 09/15/1955 | Zeljka Antunovic | Croatian politician |
| 09/16/1955 | Robin Yount | American baseball player |
| 09/17/1955 | Charles Martinet | American voice-actor |
| 09/19/1955 | Richard Burmer | American composer, sound designer, and musician (d. 2006) |
| 09/21/1955 | Richard Hieb | American astronaut |
| 09/23/1955 | Don Graham | American journalist |
| 09/24/1955 | Shinbo Nomura | Japanese manga artist |
| 09/25/1955 | Karl-Heinz Rummenigge | German football player |
| 09/28/1955 | Stéphane Dion | Canadian politician |
| 10/02/1955 | Philip Oakey | English rock musician (The Human League) |
| 10/05/1955 | Caroline Loeb | French singer and actress |
| 10/05/1955 | Jean-Jacques Lafon | French singer-songwriter |
| 10/07/1955 | Yo-Yo Ma | French-born Chinese cellist |
| 10/10/1955 | David Lee Roth | Rock singer |
| 10/13/1955 | Sergei Shepelev | Russian ice hockey player |
| 10/15/1955 | James B. Aguayo-Martel | physician, surgeon, scientist, inventor |
| 10/15/1955 | Kulbir Bhaura | British field hockey player |
| 10/18/1955 | Hiromi Go | Japanese singer |
| 10/18/1955 | Timmy Mallett | British television presenter |
| 10/19/1955 | LaSalle Ishii | Japanese TV personality |
| 10/21/1955 | Rich Mullins | American Christian musician (d. 1997) |
| 10/21/1955 | Yasukazu Hamada | Japanese politician |
| 10/28/1955 | Bill Gates | American software entrepreneur |
| 10/28/1955 | Indra Nooyi | Indian CEO |
| 10/29/1955 | Etsuko Shihomi | Japanese actress |
| 10/29/1955 | Kevin DuBrow | American musician (d. 2007) |
| 10/29/1955 | Roger O'Donnell | English musician |
| 11/02/1955 | Chris Burnett | American saxophone player, composer, veteran of US military jazz bands and band leader |
| 11/03/1955 | Phil Simms | American football player |
| 11/03/1955 | Teresa De Sio | Italian singer-songwriter |
| 11/03/1955 | Yukihiko Tsutsumi | Japanese film director |
| 11/04/1955 | Matti Vanhanen | Prime Minister of Finland |
| 11/05/1955 | Karan Thapar | Indian journalist, political analyst & commentator |
| 11/05/1955 | Kris Jenner | American TV personality |
| 11/06/1955 | Maria Shriver | American journalist, First Lady of California |
| 11/07/1955 | Detlef Ultsch | German judo athlete |
| 11/09/1955 | Karen Dotrice | English actress |
| 11/10/1955 | Roland Emmerich | German film director |
| 11/11/1955 | Jigme Singye Wangchuk | King of Bhutan |
| 11/13/1955 | Whoopi Goldberg | American actress and comedienne |
| 11/14/1955 | Koichi Nakano | Japanese bicycle racer |
| 11/19/1955 | Dianne de Leeuw | Dutch figure skater |
| 11/20/1955 | Ray Ozzie | American computer programmer |
| 11/21/1955 | Kyle Gann | American composer and music critic |
| 11/23/1955 | Steven Brust | American author |
| 11/24/1955 | Ian Botham | British cricketer |
| 11/27/1955 | Bill Nye | American science presenter and public television host |
| 11/29/1955 | Howie Mandel | Canadian actor and game show host |
| 11/30/1955 | Billy Idol | British rock singer |
| 11/30/1955 | Gordon Liu | Chinese actor |
| 11/30/1955 | Kevin Conroy | American voice actor |
| 11/30/1955 | Michael Beschloss | American historian |
| 12/03/1955 | Steven Culp | American actor |
| 12/04/1955 | Maurizio Bianchi | Italian musician |
| 12/07/1955 | Priscilla Barnes | American actress |
| 12/08/1955 | Ian Greig | English cricketer |
| 12/09/1955 | Asashio Taro IV | Japanese sumo wrestler |
| 12/12/1955 | Gianna Angelopoulos-Daskalaki | Greek politician and businesswoman |
| 12/15/1955 | Paul Simonon | Bassist for The Clash |
| 12/16/1955 | Chiharu Matsuyama | Japanese singer-songwriter |
| 12/16/1955 | Rob Levin | American founder of the freenode IRC network (d. 2006) |
| 12/17/1955 | Brad Davis | American basketball player |
| 12/21/1955 | Jane Kaczmarek | American actress |
| 12/23/1955 | Carol Ann Duffy | British poet |
| 12/23/1955 | Keith Comstock | American baseball player |
| 12/24/1955 | Clarence Gilyard | American actor and college professor |
| 12/24/1955 | Mizuho Fukushima | Japanese politician |
| 12/27/1955 | Barbara Olson | American television commentator (d. 2001) |
| 12/31/1955 | Jim Tracy | American baseball player |
| 01/01/1956 | Koji Yakusho | Japanese actor |
| 01/01/1956 | Mark R. Hughes | American entrepreneur (d. 2000) |
| 01/03/1956 | Mel Gibson | Australian actor and director (Lethal Weapon) |
| 01/05/1956 | Chen Kenichi | Japan-born Chinese chef |
| 01/07/1956 | David Caruso | American actor (NYPD Blue, CSI: Miami) |
| 01/09/1956 | Imelda Staunton | British actress |
| 01/10/1956 | Shawn Colvin | American singer |
| 01/14/1956 | Ben Heppner | Canadian tenor |
| 01/16/1956 | Martin Jol | Dutch football manager |
| 01/17/1956 | Paul Young | English musician |
| 01/18/1956 | Tom Bailey | English musician |
| 01/20/1956 | Bill Maher | American actor, comedian, and political analyst |
| 01/21/1956 | Geena Davis | American actress |
| 01/24/1956 | Lounès Matoub | Algerian Berber Kabyle singer |
| 01/25/1956 | Bronwyn Pike | Australian politician |
| 01/27/1956 | Mimi Rogers | American actress |
| 01/31/1956 | Johnny Rotten | Member of the band Sex Pistols (real name John Lydon) |
| 02/01/1956 | Mike Kitchen | Canadian ice hockey player and coach |
| 02/02/1956 | Adnan Oktar (Harun Yahya) | Famous Turkish author |
| 02/03/1956 | Lee Ranaldo | American musician (Sonic Youth) |
| 02/03/1956 | Nathan Lane | American actor (The Birdcage) |
| 02/06/1956 | Jon Walmsley | British actor (The Waltons) |
| 02/11/1956 | Catherine Hickland | American actress |
| 02/11/1956 | Didier Lockwood | French jazz violinist |
| 02/13/1956 | Paul Stojanovich | American television producer |
| 02/13/1956 | Yiannis Kouros | Greek-Australian ultramarathoner |
| 02/14/1956 | Tom Burlinson | Australian actor |
| 02/15/1956 | Desmond Haynes | West Indian cricketer |
| 02/18/1956 | Thomas Gradin | Swedish hockey player |
| 02/19/1956 | Roderick MacKinnon | American biologist, recipient of the Nobel Prize in Chemistry |
| 02/24/1956 | Judith Butler | American philosopher |
| 02/24/1956 | Paula Zahn | American television journalist (CBS News) |
| 02/25/1956 | Davie Cooper | Scottish footballer (d. 1995) |
| 02/26/1956 | Keisuke Kuwata | Japanese musician |
| 02/29/1956 | Aileen Wuornos | American serial killer (d. 2002) |
| 02/29/1956 | Bob Speller | Canadian politician |
| 03/01/1956 | Tim Daly | American actor |
| 03/05/1956 | Marco Paolini | Italian stage actor, dramaturge and author |
| 03/05/1956 | Teena Marie | American singer |
| 03/11/1956 | Rob Paulsen | American voice actor |
| 03/16/1956 | Vladimír Godár | Slovak composer |
| 03/18/1956 | Ingemar Stenmark | Swedish alpine skier |
| 03/19/1956 | Yegor Gaidar | Russian economist and politician |
| 03/20/1956 | Catherine Ashton | British politician |
| 03/21/1956 | Ingrid Kristiansen | Norwegian runner |
| 03/21/1956 | José Manuel Barroso | Prime Minister of Portugal |
| 03/21/1956 | Win Lyovarin | prize-winning Thai author |
| 03/24/1956 | Steve Ballmer | American CEO of Microsoft |
| 03/28/1956 | Evelin Jahl | German athlete |
| 03/30/1956 | Shahla Sherkat | Iranian feminist journalist |
| 04/03/1956 | Boris Miljkovic | Serbian TV & theatre director and video artist |
| 04/03/1956 | Ray Combs | American game show host and comedian (d. 1996) |
| 04/04/1956 | David E. Kelley | American writer and television producer |
| 04/04/1956 | Kerry Chikarovski | Australian politician |
| 04/05/1956 | Diamond Dallas Page | American professional wrestler |
| 04/06/1956 | Dilip Vengsarkar | Indian cricketer |
| 04/06/1956 | Sebastian Spreng | American-Argentinean visual artist |
| 04/12/1956 | Andy García | American actor |
| 04/12/1956 | Janeric Furbacken | Swedish entrepreneur |
| 04/12/1956 | Yasuo Tanaka | Japanese politician, novelist |
| 04/13/1956 | Possum Bourne | New Zealand rally car driver (d. 2003) |
| 04/14/1956 | Barbara Bonney | American soprano |
| 04/16/1956 | David McDowell Brown | American astronaut (Columbia Disaster) (d. 2003) |
| 04/16/1956 | Lise-Marie Morerod | Swiss skier |
| 04/19/1956 | Sue Barker | British tennis player and television presenter |
| 04/21/1956 | Phillip Longman | American demographer |
| 04/26/1956 | Koo Stark | British actress |
| 04/28/1956 | Jimmy Barnes | Australian musician |
| 04/30/1956 | Lars von Trier | Danish film director |
| 05/01/1956 | Alexander Ivanov | Russian-born American chess Grandmaster |
| 05/04/1956 | David Guterson | American writer |
| 05/04/1956 | Ulrike Meyfarth | German high jumper |
| 05/06/1956 | Vladimir Lisin | Russian business oligarch |
| 05/07/1956 | Jan Peter Balkenende | Prime Minister of the Netherlands |
| 05/07/1956 | Jean Lapierre | Canadian politician and television host |
| 05/10/1956 | Vladislav Nikolayevich Listyev | Russian journalist (d. 1995) |
| 05/12/1956 | Greg Phillinganes | American Keyboardist |
| 05/13/1956 | Kenneth Eriksson | Swedish rally driver |
| 05/13/1956 | Sri Sri Ravi Shankar | Indian guru |
| 05/15/1956 | Dan Patrick | ESPN sportscaster (Once worked at WLVQ - QFM-96 in Columbus) |
| 05/17/1956 | Bob Saget | American actor and television host |
| 05/17/1956 | Sugar Ray Leonard | African American boxer |
| 05/20/1956 | Ingvar Ambjørnsen | Norwegian author |
| 05/23/1956 | Buck Showalter | Baseball player and manager (Columbus Clippers) |
| 05/23/1956 | Ursula Plassnik | Austrian politician |
| 05/24/1956 | Michael Jackson | Irish Anglican bishop |
| 05/26/1956 | Lisa Niemi | American actress, widow of Patrick Swayze |
| 05/28/1956 | Jerry Douglas | American dobro player |
| 05/29/1956 | La Toya Jackson | American singer |
| 06/03/1956 | George Burley | Scottish football manager |
| 06/05/1956 | Kenny G | American grammy-award winning saxophonist |
| 06/06/1956 | Björn Borg | Swedish tennis player |
| 06/08/1956 | Udo Bullmann | German politician |
| 06/09/1956 | Patricia Cornwell | American novelist |
| 06/10/1956 | Duke Georg Borwin of Mecklenburg | German head of the House of Mecklenburg |
| 06/11/1956 | Joe Montana | American football player |
| 06/14/1956 | King Diamond | Danish heavy metal musician |
| 06/20/1956 | Cho Chikun | Korean professional Go player |
| 06/23/1956 | Randy Jackson | African American musician and talent judge |
| 06/25/1956 | Boris Trajkovski | President of the Republic of Macedonia (d. 2004) |
| 06/26/1956 | Chris Isaak | American musician |
| 06/27/1956 | Heiner Dopp | German field hockey player |
| 06/28/1956 | Noel Mugavin | Australian rules football player |
| 06/30/1956 | Ronald Winans | African American musician (d. 2005) |
| 07/02/1956 | Jerry Hall | American model and actress |
| 07/03/1956 | Rick Ducommun | Canadian actor and comedian |
| 07/05/1956 | Terry Chimes | British drummer (The Clash) |
| 07/09/1956 | Tom Hanks | American actor |
| 07/11/1956 | Sela Ward | American actress |
| 07/12/1956 | Sandi Patty | American gospel singer |
| 07/14/1956 | Vladimir Kulich | Czech actor |
| 07/15/1956 | Barry Melrose | Canadian hockey player, coach, and commentator |
| 07/15/1956 | Ian Curtis | British rock musician (Joy Division) (d. 1980) |
| 07/15/1956 | Marky Ramone | Drummer - The Ramones |
| 07/15/1956 | Toshihiko Seko | Japanese long-distance runner |
| 07/16/1956 | Tony Kushner | American playwright |
| 07/18/1956 | Sheila Aldridge | American singer (The Aldridge Sisters) |
| 07/19/1956 | Yoshiaki Yatsu | Japanese professional wrestler |
| 07/24/1956 | Pat Finn | American game show host and producer |
| 07/26/1956 | Andy Goldsworthy | British sculptor and photographer |
| 07/31/1956 | Deval Patrick | African American Governor of Massachusetts |
| 07/31/1956 | Michael Biehn | American actor |
| 08/01/1956 | Steve Green | American Christian musician |
| 08/05/1956 | Maureen McCormick | American actress (The Brady Bunch) |
| 08/14/1956 | Rusty Wallace | NASCAR driver |
| 08/17/1956 | Dave Jones | English football manager |
| 08/20/1956 | Joan Allen | American actress |
| 08/21/1956 | Kim Cattrall | Canadian actress |
| 08/22/1956 | Paul Molitor | American baseball player |
| 08/23/1956 | Andreas Floer | German mathematician (d. 1991) |
| 08/23/1956 | Arabella Kennedy | daughter of John F. Kennedy and Jackie Kennedy, stillborn |
| 08/24/1956 | John Culberson | American politician |
| 08/26/1956 | Mark Mangino | American football coach |
| 08/29/1956 | Mark Morris | American choreographer |
| 08/31/1956 | Masashi Tashiro | Japanese television performer |
| 09/01/1956 | Bernie Wagenblast | American editor and broadcaster |
| 09/02/1956 | Angelo Fusco | Provisional Irish Republican Army member |
| 09/03/1956 | Pat McGeown | Provisional Irish Republican Army member (d. 1996) |
| 09/10/1956 | Johnny Fingers | Irish musician The Boomtown Rats |
| 09/11/1956 | Phillip D. Bissett | American politician |
| 09/12/1956 | Leslie Cheung | Hong Kong actor (d. 2003) |
| 09/12/1956 | Ricky Rudd | American race car driver |
| 09/14/1956 | Kostas Karamanlis | Greek politician |
| 09/14/1956 | Ray Wilkins | English footballer and coach |
| 09/15/1956 | George Howard | American jazz saxophone musician (d. 1998) |
| 09/16/1956 | David Copperfield | American illusionist |
| 09/16/1956 | Mickey Rourke | American actor |
| 09/17/1956 | Brian Andreas | American writer, sculptor, painter, and publisher |
| 09/20/1956 | Gary Cole | American actor |
| 09/21/1956 | Jack Givens | American basketball player |
| 09/23/1956 | Paolo Rossi | Italian soccer player |
| 09/24/1956 | Gregory Peter Panos | American futurist, writer, inventor, virtual reality expert, human simulation visionary |
| 09/25/1956 | Jamie Hyneman | American television co-host (MythBusters) |
| 09/26/1956 | Linda Hamilton | American actress (Terminator) |
| 09/29/1956 | Kenneth Newby | Canadian media artist |
| 09/29/1956 | Sebastian Coe | British athlete, co-ordinator of the London 2012 Olympic Games |
| 10/08/1956 | Stephanie Zimbalist | American actress |
| 10/10/1956 | Amanda Burton | Irish actress |
| 10/11/1956 | Nicanor Duarte | President of Paraguay |
| 10/17/1956 | Mae Jemison | African American astronaut |
| 10/18/1956 | Martina Navratilova | Czech-born tennis player |
| 10/19/1956 | Carlo Urbani | Italian physician (d. 2003) |
| 10/23/1956 | Dwight Yoakam | American country singer/musician and actor |
| 10/27/1956 | Jaq D. Hawkins | British author, occultist, and lecturer |
| 10/28/1956 | Mahmoud Ahmadinejad | President of Iran |
| 11/08/1956 | Richard Curtis | British Film director, screenwriter and producer |
| 11/08/1956 | Steven Miller | American record producer |
| 11/10/1956 | Mohsen Badawi | Egyptian entrepreneur, political activist, and writer |
| 11/14/1956 | Avi Cohen | Israeli football player |
| 11/18/1956 | Noel Brotherston | Irish footballer (d. 1995) |
| 11/18/1956 | Warren Moon | American football player |
| 11/20/1956 | Bo Derek | American actress |
| 11/23/1956 | Nikolay Sidorov | Soviet athlete |
| 11/23/1956 | Shane Gould | Australian swimmer |
| 11/26/1956 | Dale Jarrett | American race car driver |
| 11/27/1956 | William Fichtner | American actor |
| 11/28/1956 | Lucy Gutteridge | British actress |
| 11/29/1956 | Eric Laakso | American football player |
| 11/29/1956 | Leo Laporte | American author and television host |
| 12/05/1956 | Krystian Zimerman | Polish pianist |
| 12/06/1956 | Peter Buck | Guitarist with R.E.M. |
| 12/06/1956 | Randy Rhoads | American guitarist |
| 12/07/1956 | Larry Bird | American basketball player |
| 12/11/1956 | Lani Brockman | American playwright |
| 12/12/1956 | Ana Alicia | Mexican actress |
| 12/12/1956 | Johan van der Velde | Dutch cyclist |
| 12/13/1956 | Majida El Roumi | Lebanese singer |
| 12/14/1956 | Béla Réthy | German sports journalist |
| 12/18/1956 | Ron White | American comedian |
| 12/19/1956 | Masami Akita | Japanese noise musician (also known as Merzbow) |
| 12/23/1956 | Michele Alboreto | Italian race car driver (d. 2001) |
| 12/26/1956 | David Sedaris | American essayist |
| 12/28/1956 | Jimmy Nicholl | Canadian-born footballer |
| 12/28/1956 | Nigel Kennedy | English violinist |
| 12/29/1956 | Fred MacAulay | Scottish comedian |
| 12/30/1956 | Sheryl Lee Ralph | African American actress |
| 12/31/1956 | Hussein Ahmed Salah | Djiboutian marathon player |