List of Famous people who are 61

Jayne Heitmeyer is a Canadian actress appearing in many science fiction and horror movies and TV shows.

David Yow is an American musician and actor born in Las Vegas, Nevada and best known as the vocalist for the noise rock bands Scratch Acid and The Jesus Lizard. Yow's debut solo album, Tonight You Look Like a Spider, was released in June 2013 on Joyful Noise Records.

Petrik Sander is a German former footballer and currently the manager of FSV Budissa Bautzen.

Agnes Jongerius is a Dutch trade unionist and politician who has been a Member of the European Parliament (MEP) for the Netherlands since July 2014. She is a member of the Labour Party, part of the Progressive Alliance of Socialists and Democrats. Between 1987 and 2012 she worked for the Federatie Nederlandse Vakbeweging, a trade union federation. She was chair of the federation between 2005 and 2012.

Beata Poźniak is a Polish actress, film director, poet, painter and an Earphones Award-winning narrator. She is also a human rights activist who introduced the first bill in the history of US Congress to officially recognize International Women's Day in the United States.

Edward Bazalgette is a British television director and former musician.

Caterina Vertova is an Italian actress. She studied in London and in Paris, as well as at the Actors Studio in New York City.

Peter Kurth is a German politician (CDU) who served as State Minister of Finance (Senator) in Berlin from 1999 until 2001.

Peter Hambleton is a New Zealand stage, film and television actor, and stage director. Well known in the Wellington theatre scene, he has played ornithologist Walter Buller in the 2006 play Dr Buller's Birds and Charles Darwin in the 2009 play Collapsing Creation. He played the Dwarf Glóin in The Hobbit film series and Mike Johnson in an episode of the 1999 TV miniseries A Twist in the Tale.