List of Famous people who born in 1961

Dato Sri Tiong King Sing is a Malaysian politician who has served as Special Envoy of the Prime Minister to China in the Perikatan Nasional (PN) administration under Prime Minister Muhyiddin Yassin since April 2020 and the Member of Parliament (MP) for Bintulu since November 1999. He served as Special Envoy of the Prime Minister in the Barisan Nasional (BN) administration under former Prime Minister Najib Razak from January 2014 to the collapse of the BN administration in May 2018. He is a member and President of the Progressive Democratic Party (PDP), a component party of the Gabungan Parti Sarawak (GPS) coalition which is aligned with the ruling PN coalition and formerly the BN coalition. In accordance with its expansion to West Malaysia in 2017, the party was rebranded with its new name and logo from the Sarawak Progressive Democratic Party (SPDP), a former component party of the BN coalition. Following the collapse of the BN administration after the 2018 general election and in the aftermath, a meeting between all Sarawak-based BN component parties was held on 12 June 2018, PDP decided to leave the coalition with the other three parties to form a new Sarawak-based political coalition in the meeting, namely the GPS coalition.

Yvonne McGregor MBE is a female English former professional cyclist from Wibsey. She was made an MBE, for services to cycling, in the 2002 New Year Honours.

Kevin Bernhardt is an American screenwriter, film actor, television actor, and producer. Bernhardt started as an actor in TV, with contract roles on Dynasty in 1989 and General Hospital (1985–1988). Following that, he had a dozen lead film roles until the mid-1990s - when he began seeing his screenplays produced - and decided to focus on writing. He had over 30 screenplays produced, before returning to a lead role opposite Amy Redford in Hate Crime. And most recently - to a major supporting role opposite Michael Caine and Ben Foster in 2020's Medieval.

Errol Clyde Klotz is a Canadian television art director and production designer. He worked as an assistant art director on several TV series filmed in Vancouver, such as The Hitchhiker, 21 Jump Street and The X-Files; and as an illustrator on the films This Boy's Life and Look Who's Talking Too.

Oleg Felevich Bozhev is a former speed skater. He trained at VSS Trud.

Unsuk Chin is a South Korean composer of classical music, who is based in Berlin, Germany. Chin began her journey with music at a fairly young age, as she taught herself how to play the piano and music theory. She was awarded the Grawemeyer Award in 2004, the Arnold Schönberg Prize in 2005, the Music Composition Prize of the Prince Pierre Foundation in 2010, the Ho-Am Prize in the Arts in 2012, the Wihuri Sibelius Prize in 2017, the Marie-Josée Kravis Prize for New Music of the New York Philharmonic in 2018, the Bach Prize in 2019, as well as the Léonie Sonning Music Prize in 2021.

Daniel Giménez Cacho is a Spanish-born Mexican actor and Ariel award winner, best known for portraying Tito the Coroner in Cronos (1993) and We Are What We Are (2010).