Famous People Born in 1953

Xi Jinping

General Secretary of the Chinese Communist Party since 2012 and President of China, the country's most powerful leader since Mao

Xi Jinping (born 15 June 1953) is a Chinese politician who is the paramount leader of China.

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Tony Blair

Labour leader who won three general elections and served as British Prime Minister from 1997 to 2007, including during the Iraq War

Sir Anthony Charles Lynton Blair (born 6 May 1953) is a British politician who served as Prime Minister of the United Kingdom from 1997 to 2007 and Leader of the Labour Party from 1994 to 2007.

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Benazir Bhutto

Two-time Prime Minister of Pakistan, the first woman to lead a Muslim-majority democracy, who was assassinated in 2007

Benazir Bhutto (21 June 1953 – 27 December 2007) was a Pakistani stateswoman who twice served as the Prime Minister of Pakistan from 1988 to 1990 and again from 1993 to 1996. She was the first woman elected to head a democratic government in a Muslim-majority country.

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Richard Stallman

Richard Matthew Stallman ( STAWL-mən; born March 16, 1953), also known by his initials rms, is an American free software activist and programmer. He campaigns for software to be distributed in such a manner that its users have the freedom to use, study, distribute, and modify that software.

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Herta Müller

Romanian-born German novelist of The Land of Green Plums whose work about life under Ceaușescu won the Nobel Prize

Herta Müller (German:; born 17 August 1953) is a Romanian-German novelist, poet, essayist and recipient of the 2009 Nobel Prize in Literature. She was born in Nițchidorf, Timiș County in Romania; her native languages are German and Romanian.

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Cristina Fernández de Kirchner

Argentine lawyer and Peronist who was the country's first elected female president, from 2007 to 2015, and later vice president

Cristina Elísabet Fernández de Kirchner (born 19 February 1953) is an Argentine lawyer and politician who served as the 55th President of Argentina from 2007 to 2015, and later as the 37th Vice President of Argentina under President Alberto Fernández from 2019 to 2023.

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Moon Jae-in

Former President of South Korea who served from 2017 to 2022

Moon Jae-in (Korean: 문재인, pronounced; born 24 January 1953) is a South Korean politician and lawyer who served as the 12th president of South Korea from 2017 to 2022.

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Pierce Brosnan

Irish actor famous for playing secret agent James Bond

Pierce Brendan Brosnan (born 16 May 1953) is an Irish actor. He achieved worldwide fame playing James Bond in four James Bond films from 1995 to 2002: GoldenEye (1995), Tomorrow Never Dies (1997), The World Is Not Enough (1999) and Die Another Day (2002).

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