List of Famous people who born in 1961

Ahmed Assid is a Moroccan Berber activist, a professor of philosophy, a poet, and a political activist, well known for being an active secularist.

Johnson Lam Man-hon is a Permanent Judge of the Hong Kong Court of Final Appeal.

Margarete de Castro Coelho is a Brazilian lawyer and politician, a federal deputy elected by Piauí. Affiliated to Progressistas, she fulfilled the mandate of vice-governor of Piauí between 2015 and 2019, having been the first woman elected in the state for the position.

Yusuf Altıntaş, otherwise known as Rambo Yusuf, is a Turkish former football player and coach.

Chen Zhangliang graduated from the South China College of Tropical Crops in 1983, and then was sent to study in the United States by the Chinese Government. He finished his Ph.D. in Washington University in St. Louis. After he returned to China in 1987, he worked in Peking University as dean of faculty of biology and chair of school of life science. He became the vice president of Peking University in 1995, and president of China Agricultural University in 2002.