List of Famous people who born in 1961

Marko Letonja is a Slovenian conductor.

Timothy Meadows is an American actor and comedian, who is one of the longest-running cast members on Saturday Night Live, where he appeared for ten seasons and for which he received a nomination for the Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Writing for a Variety Series in 1993. He played main character John Glascott on the ABC sitcom Schooled for its two-season run after playing the same character in a recurring role for six seasons on The Goldbergs.

Erwin Wagenhofer is an Austrian author and film director.

William Ragsdale is an American actor known best for playing teenaged vampire slayer Charley Brewster in the horror vampire film, Fright Night (1985), and as Herman Brooks in the television series Herman's Head (1991-94).

Nobuhiro Tanabe is a Japanese politician. He entered politics in 1991, and served as a member of the City Council for Shizuoka from 1995 to 2003. He is serving his second term as mayor of Shizuoka City.

Fernando Iwasaki Cauti is a Peruvian writer and historian. Born into a family with multiple roots. While in Peru, he taught at the Pontificia Universidad Católica del Perú and the Universidad del Pacífico in Lima. Since 1989, he has lived in Seville.

Lisa Germaine Gerrard is an Australian musician, singer and composer who rose to prominence as part of the music group Dead Can Dance with music partner Brendan Perry. She is known for her unique singing style technique, influenced by her childhood spent in multicultural areas of Melbourne, and sings within both the ranges of the dramatic contralto and the mezzo-soprano.

Tapio Korjus is a Finnish former javelin thrower.

Carlo Dante Rota is a British-Canadian-American actor, best known to Canadian audiences for his role on Little Mosque on the Prairie and to international audiences as systems analyst Morris O'Brian on the FOX series 24. He also co-starred as Emilio Solano in Jane the Virgin.

Marcy Lynn Walker, also known as Marcy Smith, is an American minister and former actress known for her television appearances on daytime soap operas. Her most famous roles are those of Liza Colby on All My Children, which she played from 1981 to 1984 and 1995 to 2005, and as Eden Capwell on Santa Barbara from 1984 to 1991.