List of Famous people who born in 1961
João Moreira Salles
João Moreira Salles is a Brazilian documentarian and president of the Instituto Moreira Salles. In 2006, he founded the magazine piauí. He has also taught courses on documentary at the Pontifical Catholic University of Rio de Janeiro and Princeton University.
Gilberto Chamba
Gilberto Antonio Chamba Jaramillo is an Ecuadorian serial killer, convicted of murdering nine people in Ecuador and Spain.
Patricia Bernal
Patricia Bernal is a Mexican actress. She has appeared in more than twenty films and telenovelas including Pobre rico, pobre. Her sons Gael and Darío are also actors. She also has a daughter, Tamara Yazbek Bernal.
Takashi Aoyagi
Takashi Aoyagi in Chiba is a Japanese scholar of Japanese literature and college professor from Chiba, Chiba. He was the Japanese voice actor for the Disney character Mickey Mouse from 1991 until 2018.
Tonino Benacquista
Tonino Benacquista is a French crime fiction author, comics writer, and screenwriter. He wrote the novel Malavita, which was later adapted into a film by Relativity Media and EuropaCorp titled The Family; it was released on 13 September 2013 in North America.
Lassaad Chabbi
Lassaad Chabbi is a Tunisian football manager.
Rustem Adagamov
Rustem Rinatovich Adagamov is an influential Russian blogger who goes by the pseudonym of "Drugoi" ("Другой"), meaning "Another". The Daily Telegraph has described Adagamov as "Russia's number one blogger".
Ruud Koopmans
Ruud Koopmans is a Dutch sociologist and professor at the Humboldt University of Berlin. His research focuses on migration, social integration and transnationalization.
Eric Allin Cornell
Eric Allin Cornell is an American physicist who, along with Carl E. Wieman, was able to synthesize the first Bose–Einstein condensate in 1995. For their efforts, Cornell, Wieman, and Wolfgang Ketterle shared the Nobel Prize in Physics in 2001.
Clíver Alcalá
Cliver Antonio Alcalá Cordones, is a retired Venezuelan major general and a member of the Bolivarian Army. Clíver Alcalá was one of the soldiers who participated in the attempted coup d'état against President Carlos Andrés Pérez in February 1992, and served as chief of garrison in the cities of both Valencia and Maracay, and finally as general commander of the Integral Defense Region in Guayana (REDI-Guayana). Alcalá Cordones was discharged from the Army on 5 July 2013 during the presidency of Nicolás Maduro.