List of Famous people who are 81

Abdallah Ben Abdel Mohsen At-Turki is a Muslim religious leader from Saudi Arabia who has been General Secretary of the Muslim World League.

Richard Kriesche is an Austrian artist. He is considered one of the most productive and influential contemporary artists in Austria.

Wolfgang Hoffmann-Riem is a German legal scholar and a former judge of the Federal Constitutional Court of Germany.

Sir Julian Robert Hunte, SLC, KCMG, OBE, was the foreign minister of Saint Lucia from April 2001 to 26 October 2004, when he was succeeded by Petrus Compton. He is the Permanent Representative for Saint Lucia to the United Nations, after presenting his credentials to the Secretary-General of the United Nations on 7 December 2004.

Stuart Wurtzel is an American art director. He was nominated for an Academy Award in the category Best Art Direction for the film Hannah and Her Sisters.

Christoph Wolff is a German-born musicologist. He is best known for his works on the music, life, and period of Johann Sebastian Bach. Christoph Wolff is an emeritus professor of Harvard University, and was part of the faculty since 1976, and former director of the Bach Archive in Leipzig from 2001 to 2014.

Mark Ptashne is a molecular biologist. He is the Ludwig Chair of Molecular Biology at Memorial Sloan–Kettering Cancer Center in New York City.