List of Famous people who born in 1951

Kate Atkinson is an English writer of novels, plays and short stories. She is known for creating the Jackson Brodie series of detective novels, which has been adapted into the BBC One series Case Histories. She won the Whitbread Book of the Year prize in 1995 in the Novels category for Behind the Scenes at the Museum, winning again in 2013 and 2015 under its new name the Costa Book Awards.

Alexander John Gosse Downer AC is an Australian former politician and diplomat who was leader of the Liberal Party from 1994 to 1995, Minister for Foreign Affairs from 1996 to 2007, and High Commissioner to the United Kingdom from 2014 to 2018.

Luis Beder Herrera is an Argentine Justicialist Party (PJ) politician. He was the governor of La Rioja Province from 2007 to 2015.

Marcus Frank Harelik is an American television, film, and stage actor, and playwright.

Darío de Jesús Gómez Zapata, simply called Darío Gómez, is a singer and composer of Colombian popular music, known by the nickname El Rey del Despecho

Louise Jameson is an English actress, with a wide variety of television and theatre credits. Her roles on television have included playing Leela in Doctor Who, Dr. Anne Reynolds in The Omega Factor, Blanche Simmons in Tenko, Susan Young in Bergerac and Rosa di Marco in EastEnders.

Tony Amendola is an American actor who is best known for playing the Jaffa master Bra'tac in Stargate SG-1. Amendola is also known for his recurring roles as revolutionary leader Edouard Kagame of Liber8 in the television show Continuum and on ABC's Once Upon a Time as Pinocchio's creator/father, Geppetto.

June Chadwick is an English film and television actress. Her best-known television roles are as Lydia in the science fiction TV series V: The Series, and as Lt. Joanna Parisi on the third season of the series Riptide.

Cristine Sue Rose, sometimes credited as Christine Rose, is an American actress. She is best known for her role as Angela Petrelli on the hit NBC science fiction drama Heroes.

Jeffrey Alan Rawle is an English actor, known for playing the long-suffering George Dent in the news-gathering sitcom Drop the Dead Donkey. He also played Silas Blissett in Hollyoaks from December 2010 until 2012. Rawle returned to Hollyoaks in 2016 and 2020.