List of Famous people who are 61
Craig Mello
Craig Cameron Mello is an American biologist and professor of molecular medicine at the University of Massachusetts Medical School in Worcester, Massachusetts. He was awarded the 2006 Nobel Prize for Physiology or Medicine, along with Andrew Z. Fire, for the discovery of RNA interference. This research was conducted at the University of Massachusetts Medical School and published in 1998. Mello has been a Howard Hughes Medical Institute investigator since 2000.
Melissa Scott
Melissa Scott is an American science fiction and fantasy author noted for her science fiction novels featuring LGBT characters and elaborate settings.
Pietro Scalia
Pietro Scalia is an Italian–American film editor.
Elisabeth Engstler
Anssi Karttunen
Anssi Karttunen is a Finnish cellist.
Zhong Lin Wang
Zhong Lin (ZL) Wang is a Chinese-born American physicist, materials scientist and engineer specialized in nanotechnology and energy science. He received his PhD from Arizona State University in 1987. He is the Hightower Chair in Materials Science and Engineering and Regents' Professor at the Georgia Institute of Technology, USA.
Alexi Grewal
Alexi Singh Grewal is an American Olympic gold medalist and former professional road racing cyclist. At the 1984 Summer Olympics in Los Angeles, Grewal became the first American man to win an Olympic gold medal in road cycling. He has two brothers, Rishi and Ranjeet, who were also top American cyclists, especially in mountain bike racing.
Takashi Sekizuka
Takashi Sekizuka is a former Japanese football player and manager.
Uwe Hassbecker
Peter Fitzgerald
Peter Gosselin Fitzgerald is a former United States Senator from Illinois. A Republican, he served from 1999 until his retirement in 2005. Fitzgerald defeated Democratic incumbent Carol Moseley Braun in 1998, becoming the first Republican to win a U.S. Senate race in Illinois since Charles Percy twenty years earlier. He had previously served in the Illinois State Senate from 1992 to 1998.