Famous people born in the year 1956

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David John Malloy

David John Malloy


David John Malloy is an American prelate of the Roman Catholic Church who serves as the ninth Bishop of the Diocese of Rockford, Illinois.....
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Eileen Collins

Eileen Collins


Eileen Marie Collins is a retired NASA astronaut and a retired United States Air Force colonel. A former military instructor and test pilot, Collins was the first female pilot and first female commander of a Space Shuttle. She was awarded several medals for her work. Colonel Collins has logged 38 days 8 hours and 10 minutes in outer space. Collins retired on May 1, 2006, to pursue private interests, including service as a board member of USAA.....
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Ejaz Chaudhary

Ejaz Chaudhary


Ejaz Ahmed Chaudhary commonly referred to as Ejaz Chaudhary is a prominent Pakistani politician, social worker, civil engineer by profession and an exdeputy mayor of Lahore. Chaudhary was previously a member of JamaateIslami where he spent 35 years of his political career before leaving the party, by 2007 Chaudhary had joined Imran Khans Pakistan TehreekeInsaf after receiving a personal invitation from Khan himself to join the party. He is currently serving as Imran Khans chief political adviso....
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Christiaan Tonnis

Christiaan Tonnis


Christiaan Dirk Tonnis is a German symbolistrealist painter, draftsman, video artist and published author. He studied at the HfG Offenbach with Dieter Lincke and Herbert Heckmann, and lives in Frankfurt, Germany.....
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David M Brown

David M Brown


David McDowell Brown was a United States Navy captain and a NASA astronaut. He died on his first spaceflight, when the Space Shuttle Columbia disintegrated during orbital reentry into the Earths atmosphere. Brown became an astronaut in 1996, but had not served on a space mission prior to the Columbia disaster.....
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Christine Lagarde

Christine Lagarde


Christine Madeleine Odette Lagarde is a French lawyer and Union for a Popular Movement politician who has been the Managing Director of the International Monetary Fund since 5 July 2011.....
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David Willetts

David Willetts


David Linsay Willetts, Baron Willetts, PC is an English Conservative Party politician and Visiting Professor at Kings College London. From 1992 to 2015, he was the Member of Parliament representing the constituency of Havant in Hampshire. He was the Minister of State for Universities and Science from 2010 until July 2014. Willetts became a member of the House of Lords in 2015.....
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Christoph Waltz

Christoph Waltz


Christoph Waltz is an AustrianGerman actor. He is best known for his works with American filmmaker Quentin Tarantino, receiving acclaim for portraying SSStandartenfhrer Hans Landa in Inglourious Basterds and bounty hunter Dr. King Schultz in Django Unchained . For each performance, he won an Academy Award, a BAFTA Award, and a Golden Globe Award for Best Supporting Actor. Additionally, he received the Best Actor Award at the Cannes Film Festival and a Screen Actors Guild Award for his portraya....
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Chris Bangle

Chris Bangle


Christopher Edward Chris Bangle is an American automobile designer. Bangle is known best for his work as Chief of Design for BMW Group, where he was responsible for the BMW, MINI and RollsRoyce motor cars.....
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Ellen J Kullman

Ellen J Kullman


Ellen J. Kullman is an United States business executive. She was formerly Chair and Chief Executive Officer of E. I. du Pont de Nemours and Company in Wilmington and is a former director of General Motors. Forbes ranked her 31st of the 100 Most Powerful Women in 2014. On October 5, 2015, DuPont announced that Kullman would retire on October 16, 2015.....
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Helmut Lang artist

Helmut Lang artist


Helmut Lang is an Austrian artist who lives and works in New York and on Long Island.....
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Chris French

Chris French


Christopher Charles French is a British psychologist specialising in the psychology of paranormal beliefs and experiences, cognition and emotion. He is the head of the University of Londons Anomalistic psychology research unit and appears regularly in the media as an expert on testing paranormal claims.....
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Chris Hedges

Chris Hedges


Christopher Lynn Chris Hedges is an American journalist, activist, author, and Presbyterian minister. Hedges is also known as the bestselling author of several books including War Is a Force That Gives Us Meaning a finalist for the National Book Critics Circle Award for NonfictionEmpire of Illusion The End of Literacy and the Triumph of Spectacle , Death of the Liberal Class , the New York Times best seller, written with cartoonist Joe Sacco, Days of Destruction, Days of Revolt , and his most r....
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Elmer Wayne Henley

Elmer Wayne Henley


Elmer Wayne Henley, Jr. is a convicted American serial killer, incarcerated in the Texas Department of Criminal Justice system. Henley was convicted in 1974219 for his role in a series of murders in Houston, Texas, between 1970 and 1973 in which a minimum of 28 teenage boys were abducted, tortured, raped and murdered by Dean Corll. Many of the victims were lured to Corlls home by Henley or Corlls other teenage accomplice, David Brooks. Corll was shot dead by Henley, then 17 years old, on Augus....
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Chris Isaak

Chris Isaak


Christopher Joseph Chris Isaak is an American rock musician and occasional actor. He is best known for his hit Wicked Game, as well as the popular hit songs Baby Did A Bad, Bad Thing and Somebodys Crying. He is renowned for his signature 1950s rock amp roll style and crooner sound, as well as his soaring falsetto and reverbladen music. He is closely associated with film director David Lynch, who has used his music in numerous films and gave him a large role in the film Twin Peaks Fire Walk With....
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Georg G nswein

Georg G nswein


Georg Gnswein k zvin or rk zvin is a German Archbishop of the Catholic Church, Chaplain of His Holiness, Prefect of the Papal Household and the personal secretary of the Pope Emeritus Benedict XVI.....
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Henri Toivonen

Henri Toivonen


Henri Pauli Toivonen was a Finnish rally driver born in Jyvskyl, the home of Rally Finland. His father, Pauli, was the 1968 European Rally Champion for Porsche and his brother, Harri, became a professional circuit racer.....
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Emmanuel Dangana Ocheja

Emmanuel Dangana Ocheja


Emmanuel Dangana Ocheja is a former Nigerian Senator who represented Kogi East senatorial district in the National Assembly, and a member of the All Progressives Congress. ....
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Geri Jewell

Geri Jewell


Geraldine Ann Geri Jewell is an American actress noted for roles on the 1980s sitcom The Facts of Life and the mid 2000s western Deadwood.....
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Gerry Ryan

Gerry Ryan


Gerard Gerry Ryan was an Irish presenter of radio and television employed by Raidi Teilifs ireann . He presented The Gerry Ryan Show on radio station RT 2fm each weekday morning from 1988 until hours before his sudden death. He was presented with a Jacobs Award for this show in 1990.....
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