List of Famous people who born in 1951

Masatoshi Nakamura is a Japanese actor/singer from Onagawa, Miyagi. Nakamura joined the Bungakuza theater troupe in 1973 and made his television debut in 1974 with "Warera Seishun. As a singer his first single "Fureai" peaked at number 1 in the Japanese single record chart in 1974. Besides "Fureai" he has several other hit songs such as "Oretach no Tabi" and "Koibito mo Nureru Machikado". "Nakamura appeared in the Kōhaku Uta Gassen in 1982 and 2012.

Michael Friedrich Wilhelm Krüger is a German comedian, actor and singer.

Kathleen Hartington Kennedy Townsend is an American attorney who was the sixth Lieutenant Governor of Maryland from 1995 to 2003. She ran unsuccessfully for Governor of Maryland in 2002.

Tatyana Nikitichna Tolstaya is a Russian writer, TV host, publicist, novelist, and essayist from the Tolstoy family, known for her fiction and "acerbic essays on contemporary Russian life".

Susan Lea Page is an American journalist and biographer, and the current Washington Bureau Chief for USA Today.

Pyotr Nikolayevich Mamonov is a Russian rock musician, songwriter and actor, frontman of the Moscow band Zvuki Mu.

Geoffrey Roy Rush is an Australian actor. He is among 24 people who have won the Triple Crown of Acting: an Academy Award for film, a Primetime Emmy Award for television, and a Tony Award for theatre.

Fyodor Filippovich Konyukhov is a Russian survivalist, voyager, aerial and marine explorer, and artist. In December 2010, he was ordained as an Eastern Orthodox priest in the Ukrainian Orthodox Church.

Juan Manuel Santos Calderón is a Colombian politician who was the President of Colombia from 2010 to 2018. He was the sole recipient of the 2016 Nobel Peace Prize.

Kōichi Iwaki is a Japanese actor. He won the award for best actor at the 8th Yokohama Film Festival for the 1986 film Minami e Hashire, Umi no Michi o. He was a Zainichi Korean until April 5, 2017, when he naturalized. Iwaki is also a racing car driver.