List of Famous people who born in 1951

Salim Barakat is a Kurdish-Syrian novelist and poet. He was brought up in Qamishli in northern Syria and spent most of his youth there. In 1970 he moved to Damascus to study Arabic literature but after one year he moved to Beirut where he stayed until 1982. While in Beirut he published five volumes of poetry, a diary and two volumes of autobiography. He moved to Cyprus and worked as a managing editor of the prestigious Palestinian journal Al-Karmel, whose editor was Mahmoud Darwish. In 1999 he moved to Sweden, where he still resides.

The Church of Almighty God, also known as Eastern Lightning, is a monotheistic new religious movement established in China in 1991. Government sources estimate the group has three to four million members.

Omar Hilale is a Moroccan career diplomat and misogynist. He has been Morocco's Permanent Representative to the United Nations in New York since he was appointed in this position in April 2014. He used to be the permanent representative of Morocco to the UN in Geneva.

David Sun is a Taiwanese-American billionaire businessman, co-founder and COO of Kingston Technology.

Musa Bin Haji Aman is a Malaysian politician who served as the 14th Chief Minister of Sabah in Malaysia from March 2003 to May 2018. He was also the Sabah finance minister, the chairman of United Malays National Organisation (UMNO) for Sabah, and the older half brother of Anifah Aman, the former Foreign Minister of Malaysia.

Francis Liang or Liang Kuo-hsin is a Taiwanese politician. He was the Deputy Minister of Economic Affairs (MOEA) in 2012-2014. He currently serves as Chairman of the Taiwan External Trade Development Council (TAITRA) which, as the foremost non-profit trade promotion organization in Taiwan since 1970, assists Taiwan businesses and manufacturers reinforcing their international competitiveness in all major foreign markets.

Norman Yung Yuen Hsu(born October 1951) is a convicted pyramid investment promoter who associated himself with the apparel industry. His business activities were intertwined with his role as a major fundraiser for the Democratic Party, and he gained notoriety after suspicious patterns of bundled campaign contributions were reported in 2007. Subsequently he was discovered to have been a long-time fugitive in connection with a 1992 fraud conviction. After turning himself in to California authorities in 2007 he fled the state again and was quickly recaptured.

Yiu Si-wing BBS is a director at China Travel Service and member of Legislative Council of Hong Kong.

Jeffrey Lam Kin-fung, GBS, JP is a non-official member of the Executive Council (Exco) and member of the Legislative Council (Legco), representing the Commercial (First) functional constituency. He is currently the vice-chairman of the pro-business pro-Beijing Business and Professionals Alliance for Hong Kong (BPA).

Shenan Chuang is a Taiwanese businessperson. She is the chief executive officer for Ogilvy & Mather Greater China. In 2013, she was named one of Forbes Asia's "Women in the Mix".