List of Famous people who are 51

Christophe Honoré is a French writer and film director.

Monica Christiane Lierhaus is a German sports journalist.

Paul Potts is an English tenor. In 2007, he won the first series of ITV's Britain's Got Talent with his performance of "Nessun dorma", an aria from Puccini's opera Turandot. As a singer of operatic pop music, Potts recorded the album One Chance, which topped sales charts in 13 countries. Before winning Britain's Got Talent, Potts was a manager at Carphone Warehouse. He had been a Bristol city councillor from 1996 until 2003, and performed in amateur opera from 1999 to 2003.

Johannes "Hannes" Ringlstetter is a German kabarettist, comedian, musician, actor, TV presenter and writer of his book "Bekenntnisse" (2005) and of several short stories.

Anja Kling is a German actress and voice actress. She is the younger sister of actress and voice actress Gerit Kling.

Dawn Michelle Staley is an American basketball Hall of Fame player and coach. Staley is a three-time Olympic gold medalist, and was elected to carry the United States flag at the opening ceremony of the 2004 Summer Olympics. After playing point guard for the University of Virginia under Debbie Ryan, and winning the gold medal at the 1996 Summer Olympics, she went to play professionally in the American Basketball League and the WNBA. In 2011, Staley was voted in by fans as one of the Top 15 players in WNBA history. Staley was inducted into the Women's Basketball Hall of Fame in 2012. She was elected to the Naismith Memorial Basketball Hall of Fame in 2013.

Jason Thomas Orange is a retired English singer, dancer and actor. He was a member of Take That during their original run from 1990 to 1996 and again following their reunion in 2005. He officially left the band in September 2014, but wasn’t an active part of Take That after the group had performed at The Music Industry Trust Awards in November 2012. His last public appearance was acting in an episode of Channel 4 comedy Shameless, which aired in April 2013.

Babak Rafati is a former Iranian-German football referee.

Joni Kay Ernst is an American politician serving as the junior United States Senator for Iowa since 2015. A Republican, she served in the Iowa State Senate from 2011 to 2014. Ernst served in the Iowa Army National Guard from 1993 to 2015, retiring as a lieutenant colonel.

Heather Joan Graham is an American actress, director, and writer. After appearing in television commercials, her first starring role in a feature film came with the teen comedy License to Drive (1988), followed by the critically acclaimed film Drugstore Cowboy (1989), which gained her initial industry notice. She then played supporting roles in films such as Shout (1991), Diggstown (1992), Six Degrees of Separation (1993), Swingers (1996) and on the television series Twin Peaks (1991) and its prequel film Fire Walk with Me (1992), before gaining critical praise for the film Boogie Nights (1997). In 1999, she co-starred in Bowfinger and Austin Powers: The Spy Who Shagged Me.