List of Famous people who born in 1961

Safra A. Catz is an Israeli-American billionaire banker and technology executive. She is the CEO of Oracle Corporation. She has been an executive at Oracle since April 1999, and a board member since 2001. In April 2011, she was named co-president and chief financial officer (CFO), reporting to founder Larry Ellison. In September 2014, Oracle announced that Ellison would step down as CEO and that Mark Hurd and Catz had been named as joint CEOs.

Her Excellency Marlene Inemwin Moses is a diplomat and a political and administrative figure from Nauru. She has served since 2005 as the current Nauruan Permanent Representative to the United Nations, with ambassadorial rank, having previously held consular responsibilities in Japan and New Zealand. She is also an expert in health administration.

Simon West is an English director and producer. He has primarily worked in the action genre, most notably as the director of the films Con Air (1997), Lara Croft: Tomb Raider (2001), The Mechanic (2011), and The Expendables 2 (2012). Outside of action, he directed the mystery thriller film The General's Daughter (1999) and the psychological horror film When a Stranger Calls (2006). He had also directed the music video for Rick Astley’s 1987 single Never Gonna Give You Up.

Daniel Ernesto Flores is an American prelate of the Catholic Church. He has been the Bishop of Brownsville since December 2009. He was an auxiliary bishop of the Archdiocese of Detroit from 2006 to 2009.

Alycia Moulton is a retired American professional tennis player.

Kimberly Foster is an American actress, best known for her role as Michelle Stevens in the CBS prime time soap opera, Dallas from 1989 to 1991.