List of Famous people who are 81

Filip David is a Serbian writer and screenwriter, best known for penning essays, dramas, short stories and novels. In 2015, he won the NIN Award for best Serbian novel of the year 2014 for his novel "Kuća sećanja i zaborava".

Aurelio González Puente is a Spanish former road bicycle racer who won the Mountains classification in the 1968 Tour de France and the Mountains classification in the 1967 Giro d'Italia. He also won stages in the Tour de France, Giro d'Italia, Tour de Suisse and Dauphiné Libéré.

Valentino Castellani was the independent Mayor of Turin, Italy, from 24 June 1993 to 1 June 2001.

Winfried Scharlau was a German mathematician.

Wayne Macdonnell is a former Canadian badminton player He was a dominant figure in Canadian badminton in the 1960s and 1970s, mainly in the men's singles events. He remained a top ranked badminton player for eighteen years.

Friedrich Josef Lienhard "Fritz" Dinkhauser is an Austrian politician.

Terry Gilbert Dischinger is a retired American basketball player in the National Basketball Association (NBA). Dischinger was a 3-time NBA All-Star and the 1963 NBA Rookie of the Year, after averaging 28 points per game in his three seasons at Purdue University.