List of Famous people who born in 1961

Frank Darío Kudelka is an Argentine football manager, currently in charge of Huracán.

Armin Schuster is a German politician of the Christian Democratic Union (CDU) who has been serving as the president of the Federal Office of Civil Protection and Disaster Assistance (BBK) since 2020.

Antônio Augusto Junho Anastasia is a Brazilian lawyer and politician, affiliated to the Social Democratic Party. He graduated with a bachelor's and later a master's from the Federal University of Minas Gerais's Law School.

Xu Qin is a Chinese politician, and the current Communist Party Secretary of Heilongjiang. Previously he had served as governor of Hebei, and before that, mayor, then party chief of Shenzhen, China's most prominent special economic zone.

Conny Kissling is a Swiss freestyle skier, world champion and Olympic participant.

Takiyuddin bin Haji Hassan is a Malaysian politician from the Malaysian Islamic Party (PAS), a component party of the ruling Perikatan Nasional (PN) coalition. He has served as Minister in the Prime Minister's Department in charge of Parliament and Law in the PN administration under Prime Minister Muhyiddin Yassin since March 2020. He has also served as the Member of Parliament (MP) for Kota Bharu since May 2013. In addition, he has served as the Secretary-General of PAS since June 2015 and its Chief Whip in the Dewan Rakyat and the only member of the Public Accounts Committee from PAS.

Alain Lanty is a French singer, composer and pianist.

Elena Borisovna Skrynnik is a Russian politician who served as the first female minister of agriculture of the Russian Federation between March 2009 and May 2012.

David Fernández Cantero is a Spanish broadcaster, news anchor, writer and painter.

Vanessa Grazziotin Bezerra is a Brazilian politician from the Communist Party of Brazil. Although born in Videira, Santa Catarina, Grazziotin based her political career in the state of Amazonas. Twice elected to represent the state in the Chamber of Deputies, she was recently elected for the Federal Senate in the 2010 parliamentary election. She is the third Communist Senator ever in the history of Brazil, after Luís Carlos Prestes and Inácio Arruda. She is also Amazonas' communist first female Senator. Vanessa was a senator in the Brazilian state of Amazonas for eight years.