List of Famous people who are 61

Daniel Mendelsohn, an American memoirist, essayist, critic, columnist, and translator, the Charles Ranlett Flint Professor of Humanities at Bard College, and the Editor at Large of the New York Review of Books. He is also the Director of the Robert B. Silvers Foundation, a charitable organization dedicated to supporting writers of nonfiction.

Heike John is a German retired swimmer and former astronaut candidate.

Padmasree Warrior is an Indian-American businesswoman and technology executive. She is known for her leadership roles in technology firms like Cisco where she served as the CTO for seven years, and at Motorola where she was the CTO for five years. She also served as the CEO of NIO USA, an electric car maker. Currently, she is the founder and CEO of Fable Group Inc., a curated reading platform focused on mental wellness. She also serves on the board of directors of Microsoft, and Spotify.

Kazuhiro Kiuchi is a Japanese manga artist, film director and novelist. As a manga writer, he is best known for the series Be-Bop High School, which won the 1988 Kodansha Manga Award for shōnen and was adapted as series of live-action movies and as a 7 episode anime OVA series. He was director of one segment of Killers.

Aleksei Lotman is an Estonian biologist, environmentalist and politician.

Øystein Kåre Djupedal is a Norwegian politician.