List of Famous people who born in 1951

Fakkir Mohamed Ibrahim Kalifulla is a former judge of the Supreme Court of India.

Shuichi "Ponta" Murakami was a Japanese jazz drummer and session musician.

David William Logan "Davey" Johnstone is a rock guitarist and vocalist, best known for his long-time collaboration with Elton John.

John Henshaw is a British actor, best known for his roles as Ken Dixon the landlord in Early Doors, Wilf Bradshaw in Born and Bred and PC Roy Bramwell in The Cops. Often associated with characters who are "hard men", he played John Prescott in ITV drama Confessions of a Diary Secretary. In 2008 he appeared in an episode of Heartbeat.

LaCosta Tucker is an American country music artist who recorded in the 1970s and 1980s as La Costa. The sister of country singer Tanya Tucker, LaCosta charted several singles of her own in the 1970s on the Billboard country singles charts, including the No. 3 "Get on My Love Train."

Huỳnh Công Út, known professionally as Nick Ut, is a Vietnamese-American photographer for the Associated Press (AP) who works out of Los Angeles. He won both the 1973 Pulitzer Prize for Spot News Photography and the 1973 World Press Photo of the Year for "The Terror of War", depicting children in flight from a napalm bombing during the Vietnam War. His best-known photo features a naked 9-year-old girl, Phan Thị Kim Phúc, running toward the camera from a South Vietnamese napalm strike that mistakenly hit Trảng Bàng village instead of nearby North Vietnamese troops. On the 40th anniversary of that Pulitzer Prize-winning photo in September 2012, Ut became the third person inducted by the Leica Hall of Fame for his contributions to photojournalism. On March 29, 2017, he retired from AP. On January 13, 2021 Ut became the first journalist to receive the National Medal of Arts, the highest award given to artists and arts patrons by the federal government.

Kevin Bernard Gilbride is an American football head coach. Gilbride was a coach for twenty years in the NFL, spending seven of them as the offensive coordinator for the New York Giants, with whom he earned two Super Bowl rings. From 1997–1998, Gilbride was the head coach for the San Diego Chargers. Most recently, Gilbride served as the head coach for the New York Guardians of the XFL.

Jeff Triplette is a retired American football official in the National Football League (NFL) from the 1996 season through the 2017 season. He wore uniform number 42.

Igor Rostislavovich Yankovsky is a Soviet and Russian actor and a TV presenter. He is a son of Rostislav Yankovsky, and a nephew of Oleg Yankovsky.

Maria Licciardi is an Italian criminal affiliated with the Camorra, head of the Licciardi clan, and one of the bosses of the Secondigliano Alliance. She was one of the most powerful bosses of the Camorra in the city of Naples from 1993 until her arrest in 2001.