Famous People Born in 1954: Celebrities &amp; Birthdays | Who Shares My Birthday

Angela Merkel

Physicist turned politician who served 16 years as Germany's first female chancellor, steering Europe through repeated crises

Angela Dorothea Merkel (née Kasner; born 17 July 1954) is a German stateswoman and retired politician who served as Chancellor of Germany from 2005 to 2021. She is the only woman to have held the office and the only former East German.

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François Hollande

Socialist politician who served as President of France from 2012 to 2017, a term marked by terror attacks and same-sex marriage

François Gérard Georges Nicolas Hollande (French:; born 12 August 1954) is a French politician who served as President of France from 2012 to 2017.

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1954–2013

Hugo Chávez

Venezuelan army officer who led a socialist Bolivarian Revolution as president from 1999 until his death in 2013

Hugo Rafael Chávez Frías (28 July 1954 – 5 March 2013) was a Venezuelan politician, revolutionary, and military officer who was the president of Venezuela from 1999 until his death in 2013.

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Recep Tayyip Erdoğan

Turkish politician who has led the country since 2003, first as prime minister and then as president

Recep Tayyip Erdoğan (born 26 February 1954) is a Turkish politician who has been the president of Turkey since 2014. He previously served as the 25th prime minister from 2003 to 2014 as part of the Justice and Development Party (AKP), which he co-founded in 2001.

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1954–1992

Rafael Orozco Maestre

leading Binomio de Oro de América, the vallenato group that dominated Colombian folk music across Latin America with chart-topping albums and numerous awards

Rafael José Orozco Maestre (March 24, 1954 – June 11, 1992) was a Colombian singer of vallenato music.

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Jackie Chan

Hong Kong action star of Police Story and Rush Hour, famous for doing his own dangerous stunts with comic flair

Chan Kong-sang (born 7 April 1954), also known as Fang Shilong and known professionally as Jackie Chan and Sing Lung, is a Hong Kong martial artist, actor and filmmaker, known for his slapstick, acrobatic fighting style, comic timing, and innovative stunts, which he typically performs himself.

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1954–2022

Shinzō Abe

Japan's longest-serving prime minister, known for his Abenomics economic policy, who was assassinated while campaigning in 2022

Shinzo Abe (21 September 1954 – 8 July 2022) was a Japanese statesman and politician who served as Prime Minister of Japan and President of the Liberal Democratic Party (LDP) from 2006 to 2007 and again from 2012 to 2020. He was the longest-serving prime minister in Japanese history, serving for nearly nine years.

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Alexander Lukashenka

Former collective farm manager who has ruled Belarus as president since 1994, often called Europe's last dictator

Alexander Grigoryevich Lukashenko (also transliterated from Belarusian as Alyaksandr Ryhoravich Lukashenka; born 30 August 1954) is a Belarusian politician who has been the first and only president of Belarus since the office's establishment in 1994, making him the current longest-tenured European president.

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