List of Famous people who are 61

Kyoko Ishida is a Japanese former volleyball player who competed in the 1984 Summer Olympics.

Danny De Bie is a former Belgian professional cyclist and directeur sportif, who won the men's race at the 1989 UCI Cyclo-cross World Championships. His brothers Eddy De Bie and Rudy De Bie also competed professionally.

Clarence Linden Garnett Ashby III is an American actor and martial artist. He is known for his roles as Dr. Brett Cooper on Melrose Place and as Johnny Cage in the film adaptation of Mortal Kombat (1995), later reprising the role in the form of an exclusive premier skin in Mortal Kombat 11 (2020). He also garnered attention for his role as Sheriff Noah Stilinski in the MTV series Teen Wolf (2011-2017).

Nigel Alan Marven is a British wildlife TV presenter, naturalist, conservationist, author, and television producer. He is best known as presenter of the BBC miniseries Chased by Dinosaurs, its sequel, Sea Monsters, as well as the ITV miniseries Prehistoric Park. He is also known for his unorthodox, spontaneous, and daring style of presenting wildlife documentaries as well as for including factual knowledge in the proceedings. This has led some people to compare him to Steve Irwin. Nigel ran the 2008 London marathon in 4 hours 4 minutes to try to raise £20,000 for the Whale and Dolphin Conservation Society UK.

Yves Parlier is a French sailor. He is very well known in the offshore sailing world and generally in France, where he was elected France's top sports personality in 2002.

Paul Kaba Thieba is a Burkinabé economist and politician who was appointed and served as Prime Minister of Burkina Faso from 6 January 2016 to 19 January 2019. Thieba was appointed by President Roch Marc Christian Kaboré on 6 January 2016, shortly after Kaboré took office. Previously he worked at the Central Bank of West African States and the West African Monetary Union.

Affif Ben Badra is an actor and stuntman currently living in France. In the United States, he appeared as a warlord in the Roland Emmerich film 10,000 BC and as Tamas Morato in Sherlock Holmes: A Game of Shadows. He also appeared in the suspense/thriller film Taken, written by Luc Besson, and in the Spanish public TV series Aguila Roja. He was born in Syria to Christian parents who fled their home following Assad's rise to power. They consider France their home and a positive land to raise their children compared to Syria.

Slimane Dazi is a French actor.

Minoru Niihara is the original and current lead singer of the Japanese heavy metal band, Loudness.

Elizabeth Avellán Veloz is a Venezuelan-born American film producer.