List of Famous people who born in 1951

Nav Bhatia, or simply the Raptors Superfan, is a Canadian businessman and superfan for the Toronto Raptors basketball team. He currently runs the Superfan Foundation as a way to unite people through the love of the sport. He has attended every Toronto Raptors home game since 1995, declaring him to be a true Superfan. On June 19, 2018, Bhatia was named a recipient of the Royal Bank of Canada (RBC) Top 25 Canadian Immigrants Award.

Lewis Ronald McNeir is an American singer and songwriter.

Ed Lee Jones, commonly known as Ed "Too Tall" Jones due to his height, is a retired American football player who played 15 seasons in the National Football League (NFL) for the Dallas Cowboys. In 1979, he briefly left football to attempt a career in professional boxing.

Laverne "Chip" Fields, who is sometimes credited as Chip Hurd or Chip Fields–Hurd, is an American singer, actress, television director, producer, consultant, and dialogue coach, who has appeared in popular films, television shows, and Broadway theatre. She is best known for portraying Lynetta Gordon, the abusive birth mother of Penny Gordon Woods in a four–part episode (1977) of the 1970s sitcom Good Times.

Teressa Claire MacNeille is an American voice actress, whose credits include voicing Dot Warner on the animated television series Animaniacs, Babs Bunny on Tiny Toon Adventures and Daisy Duck in various Disney media since 1999. She has also worked on popular long-running animated series such as The Simpsons, Futurama, and Rugrats.

Dilipkumar Mansukhlal Gandhi was an Indian politician and a member of the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) political party. He was the member of the 16th Lok Sabha of India. He died on 17 March 2021 due to COVID-19.

Rupert William Simon Allason is a former Conservative Party politician in the United Kingdom and professional author. He was the Member of Parliament (MP) for Torbay in Devon, from 1987 to 1997. He writes books and articles on the subject of espionage under the pen name Nigel West.

Stephen Michael Wedgwood Benn, 3rd Viscount Stansgate, is Director of Parliamentary Affairs for the Royal Society of Biology and a Vice-President of the Parliamentary and Scientific Committee.

Julian Schnabel is an American painter and filmmaker. In the 1980s, Schnabel received international media attention for his "plate paintings" — large-scale paintings set on broken ceramic plates. Since the 1990s, he has been a proponent of independent arthouse cinema. Schnabel directed Before Night Falls, which became Javier Bardem's breakthrough Academy Award-nominated role, and The Diving Bell and the Butterfly, which was nominated for four Academy Awards. For the latter, he won the Cannes Film Festival Award for Best Director and the Golden Globe Award for Best Director, as well as receiving nominations for the Academy Award for Best Director and the César Award for Best Director.

Pavel Eugenievich Felgenhauer is a Russian military analyst known for his publications about Russia's political and military leadership.