List of Famous people who born in 1961

Dzintar Klavan is an Estonian former professional footballer who played as a midfielder. He played for FC Flora Tallinn, JK Viljandi Tulevik, and FC Warrior Valga.

Patrice Canayer is a French handball coach and former player. He was a player-coach for 6 years in Paris-Asnières. He has been the head coach of Montpellier Handball since 1994.

Daniel M. Tani is an American engineer and retired NASA astronaut. He was born in Ridley Park, Pennsylvania, but widely considers Lombard, Illinois, to be his hometown.

Xiao-Gang Wen is a Chinese-American physicist. He is a Cecil and Ida Green Professor of Physics at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and Distinguished Visiting Research Chair at the Perimeter Institute for Theoretical Physics. His expertise is in condensed matter theory in strongly correlated electronic systems. In Oct. 2016, he was awarded the Oliver E. Buckley Condensed Matter Prize.

Jean-Laurent Bonnafé has been serving as chief executive officer of BNP Paribas since 2011.

Aram Zaveni Sargsyan is an Armenian political figure. He was Prime Minister of Armenia from 3 November 1999 to 2 May 2000.

Pamela Ann Melroy is a retired United States Air Force officer and a former NASA astronaut who is the nominee of President Joe Biden to serve as Deputy Administrator of NASA. She served as pilot on Space Shuttle missions STS-92 and STS-112 and commanded mission STS-120 before leaving the agency in August 2009. After serving as Deputy Program Manager, Space Exploration Initiatives with Lockheed Martin, Melroy joined the Federal Aviation Administration in 2011, where she was a senior technical advisor and director of field operations for the FAA's Office of Commercial Space Transportation.