The current police commissioner is Rav-Nitzav Yohanan Danino, who succeeded Rav-Nitzav Dudi Cohen on May 1, 2011.

* Yohanan Cohen ( born 1917 ), Israeli former politician and diplomat

* Yohanan Friedmann ( born 1936 ), Israeli scholar of Islamic studies

* Yohanan Petrovsky-Shtern ( born 1962 ), historian, philologist and essayist

* Yohanan Plesner ( born 1972 ), Israeli politician

* Yohanan Simon ( born 1905 ), Israeli painter

Yohanan ben Zakkai, a leading Pharisee, was appointed the first Patriarch ( the Hebrew word, Nasi, also means prince, or president ), and he reestablished the Sanhedrin at Yavneh ( see the related Council of Jamnia ) under Pharisee control.

* Yohanan Aharoni ( 1919 – 1976 ), Israeli archaeologist and historical geographer

* Yohanan Alemanno ( c. 1435 – after 1504 ), Italian Jewish humanist philosopher and exegete

* Yohanan Bader ( 1901 – 1994 ), Revisionist Zionist leader and Israeli politician

* Yohanan Levi ( 1901 – 1945 ), Hebrew linguist and historian

Johann (" YO-hann " in German, but " Yo-HANN in, for instance, Afrikaans ), typically a male given name, is the Germanized form of the originally Hebrew language name " Yohanan " ( meaning " God is merciful ").

A former leading Pharisee, Yohanan ben Zakkai, was appointed the first Patriarch ( the Hebrew word, Nasi, also means prince, or president ), and he reestablished the Sanhedrin at Javneh under Pharisee control.

Some say he may have met Giovanni Pico della Mirandola while in Florence and composed for him a discourse on the “ Harmony of the Skies .” If so, he also probably associated with Elia de Medigo, teacher of Pico della Mirandola, Yohanan Alemanno ( a Jewish writer influenced by the Medici court and mysticism and author of Song of songs ), Giovanni Pontano, Mario Equicola and monk Egidio da Viterbo.

Following the destruction of the Temple, Rabbi Yohanan ben Zakkai ordered that the Four Species be waved everywhere on every day of Sukkot ( except on Shabbat ), as a memorial to the Temple.

In a series of digs in 1959-1962, Yohanan Aharoni tentatively identified it as the biblical Beit Hakerem ( Jeremiah 6: 1 ), one of the places from which flaming warning signals were sent to Jerusalem at the end of the First Temple period.

Several streets and a kibbutz, Ramat Yohanan, in Israel are named after Smuts.

In 1932, the kibbutz Ramat Yohanan in Israel was named after him.

* Uwe Brandl ( born 1959 ): Mayor of Abensberg

* Adrian Sanders ( born 1959 ), English Liberal Democrat politician

* Adrian ( costume designer ) ( 1903 – 1959 ), born Adrian Adolph Greenberg, costume designer for over 250 films

* Adrian Paul ( born 1959 ), English actor

On 18 June 1959, she married actor Jacques Charrier, by whom she had her only child, a son, Nicolas-Jacques Charrier ( born 11 January 1960 ).

The first to be born was the radical Chadian Progressive Party ( PPT ) in February 1947, initially headed by Panamanian born Gabriel Lisette, but from 1959 headed by François Tombalbaye.

Elyssa Davalos ( born May 30, 1959 ) is a former American television and movie actress.

Frank Lloyd Wright ( born Frank Lincoln Wright, June 8, 1867 – April 9, 1959 ) was an American architect, interior designer, writer and educator, who designed more than 1, 000 structures and completed 500 works.

Harald Tveit Alvestrand ( born 1959 ) is a Norwegian computer scientist.

* Anthony Joseph Lewis ; born October 1959 to Patti Palmer

Jay Scott Greenspan ( born September 23, 1959 ), better known by his professional name of Jason Alexander, is an American actor, director, producer, writer, singer, and comedian.

Kurt Walker ( born August 9, 1959 ), professionally known by his stage name Kurtis Blow, is an American rapper and record producer.

Kyle Merritt MacLachlan () ( born February 22, 1959 ) is an American actor.

Kevin Spacey, CBE ( born Kevin Spacey Fowler ; July 26, 1959 ) is an American actor, director, screenwriter, producer, and crooner.

Maya Ying Lin ( born October 5, 1959 ) is an American architectural designer and artist who is known for her work in sculpture and landscape art.

Neal Town Stephenson ( born October 31, 1959 ) is an American writer known for his works of speculative fiction.

* Renaldo Nehemiah ( born 1959 ), American athlete

The first okapi born in captivity outside Congo was at the Antwerp Zoo, Belgium in 1953 ; the first born in North America was at the Brookfield Zoo in Illinois in 1959.

* Neal Stephenson ( born 1959 ), U. S. author

Faludi was born to a Jewish family in Queens, New York in 1959 and grew up in Yorktown Heights, New York.

Tamara Elizabeth " Tammy " Jernigan, Ph. D. ( born May 7, 1959, in Chattanooga, Tennessee ) is an American scientist and former NASA astronaut and a veteran of five shuttle missions.

* Anatoly Onoprienko ( born 1959 ), Ukrainian serial killer

In 1959, the World Bank's Board of Governors approved a U. S .- born resolution calling for the drafting of the articles of agreement.