List of Famous people who born in 1961

Ayad Jamal Aldin or Iyad Jamal al-Din, full name Iyad Raouf Mohammed Jamal al-Din, is a prominent Iraqi intellectual, politician and religious cleric. He was a member of the Iraqi parliament from 2005 until 2010 as the representative of Nasiriyah and a leading figure in Ayad Allawi's Iraqi National List (Iraqiyya) until his departure in the fall of 2009. After Ayad Allawi sent a delegation to Iran, Ayad Jamal Aldin became disillusioned with Iraqiyya and left the list to form his own party, the Ahrar Party, based on the principles of separation of religion and the state, courage and integrity. Speaking of his fallout with Ayad Allawi in a February 14, 2010 interview with Al-Arabiya TV's Suhair Al-Qaisi, Ayad Jamal Aldin said: "Since he sent a delegation to Iran, he cannot expect my support."

Alfred Sit Wing-hang is a Hong Kong government official. Since 2020, he has been Secretary for Innovation and Technology.

Mohammad Bagher Ghalibaf is an Iranian conservative politician and former military officer who held office as the Mayor of Tehran from 2005 to 2017. Ghalibaf was formerly Iran's Chief of police from 2000 to 2005 and commander of the Revolutionary Guards' Air Force from 1997 to 2000.

Huo Ke is a former Chinese political operative who served as an aide to senior official Ling Jihua. He was investigated by the Communist Party of China's anti-graft agency in January 2015, and later indicted on charges of taking and giving bribes and leaking state secrets.

Michael Wong Wai-lun is a Hong Kong government official. He is the current Secretary for Development from 2017.

Liang Yan is a Chinese volleyball player, who competed in the 1984 Summer Olympics.

Daniel Jorge Castellani is an Argentine volleyball coach and former volleyball player, member of the Argentina men's national volleyball team in 1976–1988, bronze medallist of the Olympic Games Seoul 1988, participant of the Olympic Games Los Angeles 1984, current head coach of Turkish club Fenerbahçe İstanbul.

Cai Ming is a Chinese singer, actress, sketch comedy performer.

Hani Mohammed Yusuf al-Siba'i is an Egyptian Islamic scholar who was a member of Egyptian Islamic Jihad and now lives in London as a political refugee. Efforts to deport him have failed. He is a supporter of al-Qaeda and is used as a scholarly reference by the movement. The leader of al-Qaeda, Ayman al-Zawahiri, listed him as one of four scholars that Muslims worldwide should follow, alongside Abu Muhammad al-Maqdisi, Abu Qatada and Dr. Tariq Abdelhaleem.

Mohamed Nouri Jouini is a Tunisian politician.