List of Famous people who are 61

Latifa Ibn Ziaten, is a French-Moroccan activist. She is the mother of Imad ibn Ziaten, born in 1981, the first service member in Toulouse killed by Mohammed Merah on 11 March 2012.

David George Philip Cholmondeley, 7th Marquess of Cholmondeley, ( CHUM-lee); born 27 June 1960), styled Viscount Malpas from birth until 1968, and subsequently Earl of Rocksavage until 1990, is a British peer and filmmaker. He also acts as Lord Great Chamberlain of the United Kingdom.

Maxim Biller is a German writer and columnist.

Diane Johnson, better known by her stage name Diane Louise Jordan, is a British television presenter. She was the first black presenter of the children's television programme Blue Peter, being involved in the programme from 25 January 1990 until 26 February 1996, making her its fifth longest-serving female presenter. While on Blue Peter, her co-presenters were Yvette Fielding, John Leslie, Anthea Turner, Tim Vincent, Stuart Miles and Katy Hill.

Veroníka Ígorevna Skvortsóva is a Russian neurologist, politician. She served as the Minister of Health of the Russian Federation from 21 May 2012 to 15 January 2020.

David Jeffrey Frum is a Canadian-American political commentator and a former speechwriter for President George W. Bush, who is currently a senior editor at The Atlantic as well as an MSNBC contributor. In 2003, Frum authored the first book about Bush's presidency written by a former member of the administration. He has taken credit for inspiring the phrase "axis of evil" in Bush's 2002 State of the Union address.

Anthony William Matheus de Oliveira, also known as Anthony Garotinho, is a Brazilian politician, radicalist and convicted felon. He legally adopted his stage name "Garotinho", originally a nickname he took while working as a radio sports broadcaster.

Jun Hashizume is a Japanese actor who has appeared in a number of feature films and television series. He graduated from Nihon University High School and Nihon University College of Art. He is represented with Toho Entertainment.

Paula Poundstone is an American stand-up comedian, author, actress, interviewer, and commentator. Beginning in the late 1980s, she performed a series of one-hour HBO comedy specials. She provided backstage commentary during the 1992 presidential election on The Tonight Show with Jay Leno. She is the host of the Starburns Audio podcast Nobody Listens to Paula Poundstone, which is the successor to the National Public Radio program Live from the Poundstone Institute. She is a frequent panelist on NPR's weekly news quiz show Wait Wait... Don't Tell Me, and was a recurring guest on the network's A Prairie Home Companion variety program during Garrison Keillor's years as host.

Kelly Adam Asbury was an American animated film director, screenwriter, voice actor, published children's book author/illustrator, and non-fiction author. He was best known for directing animated films, including Shrek 2, Spirit: Stallion of the Cimarron, and Gnomeo & Juliet.