List of Famous people who are 61

Cihan Aktas is a Turkish writer, researcher and journalist. She is the sister of Turkish poet and writer Umit Aktas.

Ge Ping is a Chinese actor and voice actor who graduated from Wuhan Conservatory of Music. He was best known for the role of Blue Cat in 3000 Whys of Blue Cat., an animation series known to and beloved by many children born in the 1990s. Since 2009, Ge Ping became famous due to MAD parodies made by netizens in China, stemming from a video from the past of Ge Ping addressing little viewers of the show. Many parodies create humor by the use of vulgar or sexual language, which outraged many fans of Ge Ping. However, there are also videos that seek to be inspirational; Ge Ping himself approved this type of parody, announcing that he would like to be the "foundation stone" for creative youngsters to step on.

Şehnaz Dilan is a Turkish former women's footballer, model, film and TV actress and singer.

Sadeq Ardeshir Larijani, better known as Amoli Larijani, is an Iranian cleric, conservative politician and the former and fifth head of the judicial system of Iran after the 1979 revolution.

Pan Yue is executive vice president of the Central Academy of Socialism in Beijing. An environmental journalist-turned-activist, Pan has spent much of his public career agitating for environmental causes, for which he has gained international recognition. He was the recipient of the 2010 Ramon Magsaysay Award. He served as Vice Minister of Environmental Protection between 2008 and 2015. He is the current director of Overseas Chinese Affairs Office.

Anders Hejlsberg is a prominent Danish software engineer who co-designed several popular and commercially successful programming languages and development tools. He was the original author of Turbo Pascal and the chief architect of Delphi. He currently works for Microsoft as the lead architect of C# and core developer on TypeScript.

Firdaus is the current mayor of Pekanbaru, capital of Riau province and the third-most populous city on the Indonesian island of Sumatra. He had been elected as mayor twice and 2017 where he won 92,384 votes (32.99%).

Maha Al-Ghunaim is a Kuwaiti businesswoman, who was the chair and managing director of the Kuwaiti investment firm GIH.

Ali Kurumahmut is a Turkish bureaucrat, lecturer, lawyer, and former member of Council of State (Turkey).

Ibrahim Ahmed Mahmoud al Qosi is a Sudanese citizen and paymaster for al-Qaeda. Qosi was held since January 2002 in extrajudicial detention in the United States Guantanamo Bay detainment camps, in Cuba. His Guantanamo Internment Serial Number is 54.