List of Famous people who are 61

Dawn Upshaw is an American soprano. She is the recipient of several Grammy Awards and has released a number of Edison Prize-winning discs; she performs both opera and art song, and her repertoire spans Baroque to contemporary. Many composers, including Henri Dutilleux, Osvaldo Golijov, John Harbison, Esa-Pekka Salonen, John Adams, and Kaija Saariaho, have written for her. In 2007, she was awarded a MacArthur Fellowship.

Robert Eric Betzig is an American physicist who works as a professor of physics and professor of molecular and cell biology at the University of California, Berkeley. He is also a senior fellow at the Janelia Farm Research Campus in Ashburn, Virginia.

Mona Mur is a German vocalist, composer and audio designer.

Julian Franklin Keith Nott is a British film composer, mostly of animated films. He is known for his work on the Wallace and Gromit films and Peppa Pig animations.

Jeff Celentano, also credited as Jeff Weston, is an American actor, screenwriter, producer and film director. Celentano starred as a character actor in such films as Robert Altman’s “The Player”, American Ninja 2: The Confrontation, Puppet Master II, and Demonic Toys. Also starring in “Dynasty” “Magnum P.I., and “Trapper John”. In 1994, he turned to directing with his first short film, Dickwad. Which won several film festivals as best comedy short. He also directed Under the Hula Moon, Gunshy starring Diane Lane, “Breaking Point” starring Tom Berenger and Busta Rhymes. and most recently the boxing saga Glassjaw. Celentano is an acting teacher and is the Executive Director of Drama at The Performer's Academy in Lake Forest, California. Celentano was born and raised in Pemberton, New Jersey.

Martin Glover, better known by his stage name Youth, is an English record producer and musician, best known as a founding member and bassist of Killing Joke. He is also a member of the Fireman, along with Paul McCartney.

Nicole Holofcener is an American film and television director and screenwriter. She has directed five feature films, including Friends with Money and Enough Said, as well as various television series. Holofcener was a student of director Martin Scorsese. Along with Jeff Whitty, Holofcener received a 2019 Academy Award nomination for Adapted Screenplay and won the Writers Guild of America Award for Best Adapted Screenplay for the film Can You Ever Forgive Me?.

Dr. Catarina Vaz Pinto is a Portuguese politician. She currently serves the councillor of culture for the City of Lisbon and previously was the State Secretary of Culture and Deputy Minister of Culture in the Government of Portugal.