List of Famous people who born in 1961

Mark Scott Travis is an American rock musician, best known as the drummer for the English heavy metal band Judas Priest, the Irish rock band Thin Lizzy, and the American heavy metal band Racer X.

Maja Haderlap (born 8 March 1961 in Eisenkappel-Vellach is a bilingual Slovenian-German Austrian writer, best known for her multiple-award-winning novel, Angel of Oblivion, about the Slovene ethnic minority's transgenerational trauma of being treated as 'homeland traitors' by the German-speaking Austrian neighbors, because they were the only ever-existing military resistance against National Socialism in Austria.

Daniel Freire is an Argentine film actor.

Edward Lambton, 7th Earl of Durham, is a British musician and a member of the band, 'Pearl, TN'. He is better known as Ned Lambton.

Andreas Meyer is a Swiss manager and lawyer. From January 2007 to September 2020, he has been Chairman of the Management Board of the Swiss Federal Railways (SBB). Since October 2020, he serves as president of the board at Starmind.

Hazem Salah Abu Ismail is an Egyptian lawyer and Salafi Islamist politician. He has been described by The Economist as a "populist Salafist."

Jon Ola Sand, is a Norwegian television executive. He had been the European Broadcasting Union's Executive Supervisor of the Eurovision Song Contest from 2011 to 2020.

Senator Nasser S. Judeh is a Jordanian politician who served as Jordan's longest serving Minister of Foreign Affairs, having served between 2009 and 2017 in eight consecutive governments. He also served as Deputy Prime Minister of Jordan from 2015 to 2017. He currently serves as a senator in the Jordanian Upper House of Parliament.

Christa Kinshofer-Rembeck is a German former alpine ski racer and businesswoman. In her career she won three Olympic medals, one World Championship medal and seven World Cup races.

Soner Arıca is a Turkish singer and record producer.