List of Famous people who born in 1961

Paul Duchesnay is a retired ice dancer who represented France for most of his career. With his sister Isabelle Duchesnay, he is the 1991 World champion and the 1992 Olympic silver medalist.

Marvin "Smitty" Smith is an American jazz drummer and composer.

Simon Joseph Wells is an English film director of animation and live-action films. He is the great-grandson of author H. G. Wells.

India Jane Birley is a British artist, heiress and businesswoman. She was a co-owner/manager of her father's London nightclub Annabel's in its later years, as well as some of her father's other establishments.

Zheng Zhihua is a Taiwanese singer. When he was two, he contracted polio and became permanently paralyzed from the waist down. He started his career in the late 1980s and enjoyed great success and popularity during the early 1990s in both Taiwan and mainland China. He announced his retirement in January 1999, but in 2005 he reemerged.

Igor Yurievich Artemiev is a Russian politician and government official.

Sebastião Afonso Viana Macedo Neves, better known as Tião Viana, is a doctor and Brazilian politician. He was formerly Governor of Acre and is a member of the Workers' Party. He served as interim President of the Senate in 2007.

Masayo Takahashi is a Japanese medical physician, ophthalmologist and stem cell researcher.

Miki Takahashi is a Japanese voice actress and singer. Together with her friend Chika Sakamoto, she participated in the third incarnation of the radio show Animetopia. She is a member of SplashDream.