List of Famous people who are 61

Yuri Georgiyevich Shargin is a retired cosmonaut of the Russian Space Forces.

Toni Hudson is an American actress, who has appeared in films and on television. Her first role was in the daytime soap opera Capitol. Her best known part was in the 1985 film Just One of the Guys as Denise.

Gadi Eizenkot or Eisenkot was the 21st Chief of General Staff of the Israel Defense Forces. He is the originator of the so-called Dahiya doctrine.

Peter O'Brien is an Australian actor, best known for his role as an original cast member in 1985 of Australian soap opera Neighbours as Shane Ramsay.

Raymond Laflamme, OC, FRSC is a Canadian physicist and founder and until mid 2017, was the director of the Institute for Quantum Computing at the University of Waterloo. He is also a professor in the Department of Physics and Astronomy at the University of Waterloo and an associate faculty member at Perimeter Institute for Theoretical Physics. Laflamme is currently a Canada Research Chair in Quantum Information. In December 2017, he was named as one of the appointees to the Order of Canada.

Victoria "Vicky" Jenson is an American film director of both live-action and animated films, and has been said to be "one of Hollywood's most inspiring female Directors". She has directed projects for DreamWorks Animation, including Shrek, the first film to win an Academy Award for Best Animated Feature, giving rise to one of Hollywood's largest film franchises.

Alastair David William Fothergill is a British producer of nature documentaries for television and cinema. He is the series producer of the series The Blue Planet (2001), Planet Earth (2006) and the co-director of the associated feature films Deep Blue and Earth.