List of Famous people who born in 1961

John Robert Moolenaar is an American politician serving as the U.S. Representative for Michigan's 4th congressional district since 2015. A member of the Republican Party, he was previously elected to the Michigan House of Representatives (2003–2008) and Michigan Senate (2011–2014).

Marius Stan is a Romanian scientist and actor from Urziceni, currently a senior scientist at the Applied Materials division at Argonne National Laboratory in Lemont, Illinois, where he uses Artificial Intelligence to design materials. Stan is best known for playing car wash owner Bogdan Wolynetz in the AMC television series Breaking Bad.

Jayshree V. Ullal is an American billionaire businesswoman, president and CEO of Arista Networks, a cloud networking company responsible for the deployment of 10/25/40/50/100 Gigabit Ethernet networking in the data center.

Ziyaettin Dogan is a Turkish football manager.

Husref Musemić is a Bosnian professional football manager and former player who is the manager of Bosnian Premier League club Tuzla City. He is regarded as one of the most successful Bosnian football managers.

Thomas R. Perrotta is an American novelist and screenwriter best known for his novels Election (1998) and Little Children (2004), both of which were made into critically acclaimed, Academy Award-nominated films. Perrotta co-wrote the screenplay for the 2006 film version of Little Children with Todd Field, for which he received an Academy Award nomination for Best Adapted Screenplay. He is also known for his novel The Leftovers (2011), which has been adapted into a TV series on HBO.