List of Famous people who born in 1961

Mohamed Boussaid is a Moroccan politician of the National Rally of Independents. Between 2007 and 2010, he held the position of Minister of Tourism and Crafts in the cabinet of Abbas El Fassi. Since 2010, he has been "Wali" (governor) of the Souss-Massa-Drâa region. He was Minister of Economy and Finance from October 2013 to August 2018.

José Reyes Baeza Terrazas is a Mexican politician and lawyer. In 2004, he was elected Governor of Chihuahua as a member of the Institutional Revolutionary Party for the term ending in 2010. Prior to that, he was Chair of Law at the University of Chihuahua in Chihuahua. He then served as mayor of the city of Chihuahua from 1998 to 2001 and as a congressman in the federal Chamber of Deputies (Congress).

Cai Zhenhua is a male former table tennis player from China. He is the vice Chairman and the Secretary of the Secretariat of the All-China Federation of Trade Unions, the former deputy Director of State General Administration of Sports and the president of the Chinese Football Association from 2014 to 2019 and is repaced by Chen Xuyuan, the Chinese Badminton Association and the Chinese Table Tennis Association.

Mykola Martynenko - Ukrainian politician. Former People's Deputy of Ukraine. Member of the party "People's Front".

Todd Haynes is an American filmmaker from Los Angeles, California. His films span four decades with consistent themes examining the personalties of well-known musicians, dysfunctional and dystopian societies, and blurred gender roles.

Jonathan Coe is an English novelist and writer. His work has an underlying preoccupation with political issues, although this serious engagement is often expressed comically in the form of satire. For example, What a Carve Up! reworks the plot of an old 1960s spoof horror film of the same name. It is set within the "carve up" of the UK's resources which was carried out by Margaret Thatcher's Conservative governments of the 1980s.

Shigeru Nakahara is a Japanese voice actor. He is attached to Local Dream and was formerly attached to Arts Vision, Sigma Seven and Vi-Vo.

Billy Warlock is an American actor best known for playing Eddie Kramer, a lifeguard on the first three seasons of Baywatch and in the reunion movie in 2003, as well as for numerous daytime roles, most notably Frankie Brady on Days of Our Lives and A.J. Quartermaine on General Hospital.

Filiz Kerestecioğlu Demir is a Turkish politician from the Peoples' Democratic Party (HDP) who currently serves as a Member of Parliament since the June 2015 general election.

Urs Meier is a Swiss football manager. He is the previous manager of FC Zürich in the Swiss Super League.