List of Famous people who are 81

Major General Peter Maurice Arnison, is a retired Australian Army officer who served as the 23rd Governor of Queensland, in office from July 1997 until July 2003. He graduated from the Royal Military College, Duntroon in 1962, and served as Land Commander Australia from 1994 until he retired from the Australian Army in 1996.

Tony Tarantino is an American actor and producer. He is the father of filmmaker Quentin Tarantino.

Bruce Beresford is an Australian film director who has made more than 30 feature films over a 50-year career. Notable films he has directed include Breaker Morant (1980), Tender Mercies (1983), Crimes of the Heart (1986) and the multiple Academy Award winning Driving Miss Daisy (1989).

Endre Szemerédi is a Hungarian-American mathematician and computer scientist, working in the field of combinatorics and theoretical computer science. He has been the State of New Jersey Professor of computer science at Rutgers University since 1986. He also holds a professor emeritus status at the Alfréd Rényi Institute of Mathematics of the Hungarian Academy of Sciences.

Angelo Rinaldi is a French writer and literary critic.

David Henry Auston is a Canadian-American physicist, known for his work on terahertz technology, and in particular, the development of the Auston switch.

Boris Petrovich Ignatyev is a Russian football manager and former player. In 1996–1998 he coached the Russia national team.