List of Famous people who are 61

Vladimir Pištalo is a Serbian American writer, most notably winning the NIN Award for novel of the year in 2008.

Vasiliy Bubka is a retired pole vaulter who represented the USSR and later Ukraine. His personal best was 5.86 metres, achieved in July 1988 in Chelyabinsk.

Pål Sletaune is a Norwegian film director and photographer. His films include Junk Mail, Naboer and The Monitor.

Michelle Paver is a British novelist and children's writer, known for the fantasy series Chronicles of Ancient Darkness, set in pre-agricultural Stone Age Europe. For the concluding book Ghost Hunter (2009) she won the Guardian Children's Fiction Prize, a book award judged by a panel of British children's writers.

Kij Johnson is an American writer of fantasy. She is a faculty member at the University of Kansas.

Graham Haynes is an American cornetist, trumpeter and composer. The son of jazz drummer Roy Haynes, Graham is known for his work in nu jazz, fusing jazz with elements of hip hop and electronic music.