List of Famous people who born in 1951

Nozomu Sahashi ; previously Saruhashi) is the founder of the now-defunct Nova Corporation, previously the major eikaiwa provider in Japan. After graduating from high school, Sahashi went to Paris to attend university and majored in physics although it took him five years to complete a two-year course. The award status of his degree is unknown.

Hardi (born May 26, 1951, Blitar, is an Indonesian artist, a member of the New Art Movement.

Fred Weldon Leslie is an American scientist who flew on the NASA STS-73 Space Shuttle mission as a payload specialist.

Hussein Abdallah al-Araj is a Palestinian former mayor and government minister. He was the acting mayor of Nablus, one of the largest cities in the West Bank. He was in office, heading a local government committee, from April 2004 to April 2005. He was succeeded by another local government committee led by Ghassan Hammouz. Al-Araj was also the Palestinian National Authority's Deputy Minister of Local Government in 2004-05.

Anand Pillay is a British mathematician and logician working in model theory and its applications in algebra and number theory.