Famous people born in the year 1956

Ivo Boscarol , born 15 April 1956, is the founder and CEO of Pipistrel, a producer of ultralight and light aircraft, based in Ajdovina, Slovenia. Boscarol is most known as an aircraft designer and entrepreneur. ....
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Danilo Dueas , has been a Professor at the Art Department of the University of The Andes, the School of Fine Arts of the National University of Colombia and at the Faculty of Fine Arts of the Jorge Tadeo Lozano University since 1990. In 1995, he participated in the exhibitions Mestica and Transatlntica, curated by Carlos Basualdo at the Museum of Contemporary Art and Design in San Jos de Costa Rica and the Alejandro Otero Museum of Visual Arts in Caracas, respectively. In 1999, he was the recipi....
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Daniel Danny Boyle is a British film director, producer, screenwriter and theatre director, known for his work on films including Shallow Grave, Trainspotting, The Beach, 28 Days Later, Slumdog Millionaire, Sunshine, 127 Hours, and Steve Jobs. Boyles 2008 film Slumdog Millionaire was nominated for ten Academy Awards and won eight, including the Academy Award for Best Director. Boyle was presented with the Extraordinary Contribution to Filmmaking Award at the 2008 Austin Film Festival, where he ....
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William Daniel Danny Hillis is an American inventor, engineer, mathematician, entrepreneur, and author. He cofounded Thinking Machines Corporation, a company that developed the Connection Machine, a parallel supercomputer designed by Hillis at MIT. He is also cofounder of the Long Now Foundation, Applied Minds, Metaweb Technologies, Applied Proteomics, and author of The Pattern on the Stone The Simple Ideas That Make Computers Work. He is Judge Widney Professor of Engineering and Medicine at th....
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Calvin Dallas is a Canadian politician and former Member of the Legislative Assembly of Alberta representing the constituency of Red DeerSouth as a Progressive Conservative.....
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Peter Farrelly and Bobby Farrelly are American screenwriters and directors, professionally known as the Farrelly brothers. They have made eleven films, including Dumb and Dumber Kingpin Hall Pass Me, Myself amp Irene Shallow Hal Stuck on You Osmosis Jones Theres Something About Mary Fever Pitch the 2007 remake of The Heartbreak Kid The Three Stooges and Dumb and Dumber To. ....
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Eduardo Andrs Julio Zaplana HernndezSoro is a Spanish politician who served as the Partido Popular spokesman in the Spanish Congress of Deputies from 2004 to 2008.....
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Eduard Nalbandyan is an Armenian diplomat. He has served in the government of Armenia as Minister of Foreign Affairs since April 2008.....
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Hans Enoksen is a Greenlandic politician who served as the fourth Prime Minister of Greenland from 2002 to 2009.....
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Charles Joseph Charlie Crist, Jr. is an American attorney and politician who served as the 44th Governor of Florida from 2007 to 2011.....
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David Michael Murray is an English guitarist and songwriter best known as one of the earliest members of the British heavy metal band Iron Maiden. Along with the groups bassist and primary songwriter Steve Harris, Murray has appeared on all of the bands releases.....
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Edward William FitzalanHoward, 18th Duke of Norfolk, DL , styled Earl of Arundel between 1975 and 2002, is a British peer.....
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Charles Joseph Weis is an American football coach who most recently was the head coach for the Kansas Jayhawks. For five years, from 2005 through 2009, Weis was the head football coach for the Notre Dame Fighting Irish. He has also served as an offensive coordinator in the National Football League, for the New York Jets, New England Patriots, and Kansas City Chiefs.....
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Virginia Elizabeth Geena Davis is an American actress, film producer, writer, former fashion model, and former archer. She is known for her roles in The Fly , Beetlejuice , Thelma amp Louise , A League of Their Own , The Long Kiss Goodnight , Stuart Little and The Accidental Tourist, for which she won the 1988 Academy Award for Best Supporting Actress.....
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David Seth Kotkin , known professionally as David Copperfield, is an American illusionist, described by Forbes as the most commercially successful magician in history.....
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David Edward Kelley is an American television writer and producer, known as the creator of Picket Fences, Chicago Hope, The Practice, Ally McBeal, Boston Public, Boston Legal, and Harrys Law as well as several films. Kelley is one of very few screenwriters to have created shows aired on all four top commercial U.S. television networks .....
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Harry Binkley Harris, Jr. is an Admiral in the United States Navy who currently serves as Commander, United States Pacific Command . He is the first AsianAmerican to achieve the rank of Admiral in the U.S. Navy, the highest ranking Japanese American, and the first officer from the U.S. Navys P3 Orion maritime patrol aviation community to achieve 4star rank. He was Commander, U.S. Pacific Fleet in Hawaii from 20132015. While a Vice Admiral, he served as the Assistant to the Chairman of the Joint....
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David J. Dave Fishelson is an American producer, playwright, and director for film, theatre, television and radio, based in Manhattan since 1982. He is best known for being the lead producer of Goldas Balcony, the longestrunning onewoman show in Broadway history and for being the founderproducer of Manhattan Ensemble Theatre , an awardwinning OffBroadway theatre company located in SoHo, New York City. As a filmmaker, his work has been broadcast on PBS, exhibited theatrically, and selected for ....
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Harry Keels Thomas, Jr. is an American diplomat and current United States Ambassador to Zimbabwe. He served as the United States Ambassador to the Philippines from 2010 to 2013. A former United States Ambassador to Bangladesh and Director General of the United States Foreign Service , Thomas was designated by US President Barack Obama on November 19, 2009 to replace Kristie Kenney as Ambassador to the Philippinesthe first African American to serve at that post. He was confirmed by the United S....
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Chittrovanu Mazumdar is a contemporary Indian artist of BengaliIndian and French descent. Mazumdar has been described as a conceptual artist and a poststructuralist while some critics consider it difficult to classify his oeuvre into a single artistic tradition or even into any consistent genre of his own. Mazudmar has referred to himself as an expressionist painter but has also said he generally prefers not to use a particular word to qualify his work because it comprises different kinds of me....
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