Born in 1956
The most popular baby names and the famous people of the year you arrived.
Top 100 baby names of 1956
Girls
- Mary
- Debra
- Linda
- Deborah
- Susan
- Patricia
- Karen
- Cynthia
- Barbara
- Donna
- Nancy
- Pamela
- Sharon
- Sandra
- Diane
- Carol
- Kathleen
- Cheryl
- Brenda
- Kathy
- Janet
- Elizabeth
- Denise
- Teresa
- Margaret
Boys
- Michael
- James
- Robert
- David
- John
- William
- Richard
- Mark
- Thomas
- Steven
- Charles
- Joseph
- Gary
- Donald
- Ronald
- Kenneth
- Paul
- Daniel
- Timothy
- Jeffrey
- Larry
- Kevin
- Stephen
- Gregory
- Edward
Show names 26 to 100
Girls
- Janice
- Rebecca
- Catherine
- Robin
- Joyce
- Lisa
- Theresa
- Carolyn
- Laura
- Judy
- Cathy
- Cindy
- Kim
- Debbie
- Beverly
- Shirley
- Christine
- Connie
- Betty
- Judith
- Ann
- Paula
- Julie
- Gail
- Jane
- Bonnie
- Joan
- Gloria
- Sherry
- Sheila
- Diana
- Vicki
- Lynn
- Martha
- Kathryn
- Wanda
- Rhonda
- Peggy
- Rose
- Jean
- Lori
- Katherine
- Vickie
- Jo
- Marilyn
- Darlene
- Dorothy
- Kimberly
- Maria
- Virginia
- Laurie
- Ruth
- Jacqueline
- Rita
- Valerie
- Terri
- Phyllis
- Anita
- Ellen
- Victoria
- Anne
- Tina
- Michelle
- Elaine
- Helen
- Terry
- Dawn
- Angela
- Suzanne
- Wendy
- Marie
- Jennifer
- Alice
- Joanne
- Michele
Boys
- Dennis
- George
- Randy
- Douglas
- Anthony
- Terry
- Brian
- Bruce
- Scott
- Jerry
- Keith
- Peter
- Frank
- Raymond
- Patrick
- Roger
- Lawrence
- Ricky
- Alan
- Wayne
- Danny
- Christopher
- Carl
- Gerald
- Dale
- Craig
- Russell
- Walter
- Randall
- Johnny
- Andrew
- Jeffery
- Willie
- Steve
- Arthur
- Glenn
- Roy
- Joe
- Philip
- Rodney
- Jack
- Ralph
- Billy
- Barry
- Stanley
- Henry
- Harold
- Martin
- Samuel
- Ronnie
- Phillip
- Bobby
- Jimmy
- Eric
- Curtis
- Albert
- Louis
- Micheal
- Howard
- Tony
- Eugene
- Allen
- Darrell
- Leonard
- Matthew
- Frederick
- Jay
- Eddie
- Ernest
- Harry
- Victor
- Mike
- Vincent
- Dean
- Rick
Ranked by the number of US Social Security card applications for babies born in 1956.
Famous people born in 1956
Christine Lagarde · President of the European Central BankJanuary 1
Mel Gibson · American actor, director, producer and screenwriterJanuary 3
Frank-Walter Steinmeier · German politician, president of Germany since 2017January 5
Elizabeth Strout · American novelistJanuary 6
David Caruso · American actorJanuary 7
Nikolai Noskov · Soviet and Russian singer and song writerJanuary 12
Bill Maher · American stand-up comedian and television hostJanuary 20
Geena Davis · American actressJanuary 21
Susanne Blakeslee · American voice, stage and musical theatre actressJanuary 27
Mimi Rogers · American actressJanuary 27
John Lydon · British-born Irish-American singer and songwriterJanuary 31
Nathan Lane · American actorFebruary 3
Roderick MacKinnon · American neuroscientistFebruary 19
Judith Butler · American feminist gender studies philosopherFebruary 24
Michel Houellebecq · French writerFebruary 26
Dalia Grybauskaitė · President of Lithuania fom 2009 to 2019March 1
Bryan Cranston · American actorMarch 7
Rob Paulsen · American voice actor and voice directorMarch 11
Jost Gippert · German linguistMarch 12
Dana Delany · American actressMarch 13
Catherine Ashton · British politicianMarch 20
José Manuel Barroso · Portuguese politicianMarch 23
Steve Ballmer · American businessman, former chief executive officer of MicrosoftMarch 24
Michele Bachmann · American politicianApril 6
Andy Garcia · American actor and directorApril 12
Eric Roberts · American actorApril 18
Lars von Trier · Danish film director and screenwriterApril 30
Jan Peter Balkenende · Prime Minister of the Netherlands from 2002 to 2010May 7
Bob Saget · American stand-up comedianMay 17
Sugar Ray Leonard · American boxerMay 17
Boris Akunin · Russian writer, translation, and historianMay 20
Giuseppe Tornatore · Italian film director and screenwriterMay 27
La Toya Jackson · American singerMay 29
Katerina Sakellaropoulou · Greek judge, former president of the Hellenic RepublicMay 30
Keith David · American actorJune 4
Kenny G · American saxophonistJune 5
Björn Borg · Swedish tennis playerJune 6
Patricia Cornwell · American novelist, journalist, biographerJune 9
Anthony Bourdain · American chef and television personalityJune 25
Chris Isaak · American rock musicianJune 26
Min Aung Hlaing · 11th President of MyanmarJuly 3
Horacio Cartes · 49th President of ParaguayJuly 5
Tom Hanks · American actor and film producerJuly 9
Sela Ward · American actress, author, and producerJuly 11
Gregg L. Semenza · American physician and university teacherJuly 12
Michael Connelly · American novelist, journalist, crime fiction writer, and screenwriterJuly 21
Frances Arnold · Nobel prize winning US scientist and engineerJuly 25
Michael Biehn · American actorJuly 31
Meg Whitman · American business executiveAugust 4
Joan Allen · American actressAugust 20
Tsai Ing-wen · 14th and 15th President of Republic of ChinaAugust 31
David Copperfield · American illusionistSeptember 16
Almazbek Atambayev · 4th President of the Republic of KyrgyzstanSeptember 17
Paolo Rossi · Italian footballerSeptember 23
Linda Hamilton · American actressSeptember 26
Theresa May · Prime Minister of the United Kingdom from 2016 to 2019October 1
Andrus Ansip · Estonian chemist and politicianOctober 1
Christoph Waltz · Austrian-German actorOctober 4
Trần Đại Quang · 8th President of VietnamOctober 12
Mae Jemison · American doctor and NASA astronautOctober 17
Martina Navratilova · Czech-American tennis playerOctober 18
Danny Boyle · English filmmakerOctober 20
Carrie Fisher · American actress, writer and screenwriterOctober 21
Rita Wilson · American actress, singer and producerOctober 26
Mahmoud Ahmadinejad · 6th President of the Islamic Republic of Iran from 2005 to 2013October 28
Bo Derek · American actressNovember 20
Richard Kind · American actorNovember 22
William Fichtner · American actorNovember 27
Randy Rhoads · American guitaristDecember 6
Larry Bird · American basketball player and coachDecember 7
Mohamed Ould Abdel Aziz · President of Mauritania from 2009 to 2019December 20