List of Famous people who are 81

Vikram Gokhale is an Indian film, television and stage actor, notable for his roles in Marathi theatre, and Hindi films and television. He is the son of another well-known veteran Marathi theater and film actor, Chandrakant Gokhale.

Boris Petrovich Kocheishvili is an artist and poet who lives and works in Moscow, Russia. His works are in the collections of Tretyakov Gallery, Russian Museum, Pushkin Museum, Museum Ludwig (Germany), various museums and galleries in Russia, private collections of George Costakis (Greece), Cristina Barbano and Alberto Sandretti (Italy), Arina Kovner (Switzerland), Michael Alshibai and Vladimir Semenov (Moscow) and other private collections in Russia and abroad.

Ian Bruce Lang, Baron Lang of Monkton, PC is a British Conservative politician and Life Peer who served as the Member of Parliament for Galloway, and then Galloway and Upper Nithsdale, from 1979 to 1997.

Dorrit Willumsen is a Danish writer. She made her literary debut in 1965 with the short story collection Knagen.

Petru Lucinschi, also Russified with the patronymic as Pyotr Kirillovich Luchinsky is a former Moldovan politician who was Moldova's second President (1997–2001).

William Chase Taubman is an American political scientist. His biography of Nikita Khrushchev won the Pulitzer Prize for Biography in 2004 and the National Book Critics Circle Award for Biography in 2003.