List of Famous people who born in 1961

Tetsuo Hara is a Japanese manga artist, best known for drawing the series Fist of the North Star, which he co-authored with Buronson. He is cousin to comedian Ryo Fukawa.

Wavel Ramkalawan is a Seychellois politician and Anglican priest who has been serving as the President of the Republic of Seychelles since 26 October 2020. Ramkalawan was an opposition MP from 1993 to 2011 and 2016 to 2020. He also served as the Leader of the Opposition from 1998 to 2011 and 2016 to 2020. On 25 October 2020, Ramkalawan won the presidential election, the first such victory for an opposition candidate since independence.

Serdar Hüseyin Yıldırım Turkish politician and engineer. Since 6 August 2019 first president of Turkish Space Agency.

Fares Al-Helou, also spelled Fares Helou, is a Syrian actor. Since his graduation from the Syrian Higher Institute for Dramatic Arts in 1984, he has appeared in numerous plays, TV and cinema productions, both in Syria and in France.

Guillermo Semler Aguirre better known as Willy Semler is a Chilean actor of films, theatre, television and theater director.

Jean-Yves Thibaudet is a French pianist.

Wang Hesheng is a Chinese politician and the current deputy director of the National Health Commission, Party branch secretary and director of the Hubei Provincial Health Commission, and standing committee member of the CPC Hubei Provincial Committee.

Ottmar Georg Edenhofer is one of the world's leading experts on climate change policy, environmental and energy policy, and energy economics. His work has been heavily cited. Edenhofer currently holds the professorship of the Economics of Climate Change at the Technical University of Berlin. He is designated director and chief economist of the Potsdam Institute for Climate Impact Research (PIK) as well as director of the Mercator Research Institute on Global Commons and Climate Change (MCC). From 2008 to 2015 he served as one of the co-chairs of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) Working Group III "Mitigation of Climate Change".

Claudia Kristofics-Binder is an Austrian former figure skater. She is a two-time World bronze medalist and the 1982 European champion. She represented Austria at the 1976 and 1980 Winter Olympics. She was coached by Carlo Fassi.

Wendi Richter is a retired American professional wrestler. She began her professional wrestling career in companies such as the National Wrestling Alliance, where she teamed with Joyce Grable, with whom she held the NWA Women's World Tag Team Championship twice. In the 1980s, she joined the World Wrestling Federation (WWF). She held the WWF Women's Championship twice and feuded with The Fabulous Moolah over the title. She was also involved in a storyline with singer Cyndi Lauper called the "Rock 'n' Wrestling Connection". Richter, however, left the WWF after losing the championship in controversial fashion. She then worked in the World Wrestling Council and American Wrestling Association, where she held both companies' women's titles.