List of Famous people who born in 1961

Mark Saunders is a Canadian police officer who served as chief of the Toronto Police Service (TPS) from April 26, 2015 to July 31, 2020. He was selected by the Toronto Police Services Board on April 17, 2015, to succeed Bill Blair following Blair's retirement in April 2015. Saunders is the first Black Canadian to lead the Toronto police and the second Black Canadian to lead a police force in Canada. Saunders stepped down on July 31, 2020.

Juan Echanove Labanda is a Spanish actor.

Shira Piven is an American director, writer and filmmaker. She directed the 2014 film Welcome to Me starring Kristen Wiig.

José Reinaldo Azevedo e Silva is a Brazilian political journalist. Currently, Reinaldo is a columnist in Folha de S.Paulo newspaper and acts as a commentator on RedeTV! News, of RedeTV! channel, in addition to presenting the program "Pela Ordem" on the platforms of the station. Azevedo's blog was listed in 2014 as one of the top ten political blogs in Brazil. He has conservative political views and has criticised the political actions of the Workers' Party (Brazil) and its leader, the former president of Brazil, Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva. Since 2019 he has also made pointed criticisms of the new right-wing government in power, in particular Sérgio Moro's alleged misconduct.

Víctor Alberto Trujillo Matamoros is a Mexican host and comedian. He is best known for his character Brozo el Payaso Tenebroso, a green-haired, unkempt, obscene and aggressive clown.

Keith Douglas Sweat is an American singer, songwriter, record producer, and an early figure in the new jack swing musical movement. He is known for his collection of hits including "I Want Her", "Make It Last Forever", "I'll Give All My Love to You", "Make You Sweat", "Get Up on It", "Twisted" and "Nobody". He has released 13 solo albums and 2 as a part of the R&B supergroup LSG, and discovered the groups Silk and Kut Klose.

Roland Wiesendanger is a German physicist, specializing in nanoscience. Since 1993 he has been a full professor at the University of Hamburg, Germany, where he established a National Center of Competence in Nanotechnology. He has been awarded three times in a row with the ERC Advanced Grant of the European Research Council as first scientist in Europe. In the Laudatio for the International Julius Springer Prize for Applied Physics (2016), his pioneering work on Spin-Polarized Scanning Tunneling Microscopy and Magnetic Exchange Force Microscopy, which allow for investigations of the magnetism of individual atoms on surfaces as well as the spin structure of solid surfaces with atomic resolution, was highlighted.

Aleksei Konstantinovich Maklakov is a Russian actor and singer. Well known in Russia for his current starring role as Praporshchik Shmatko on the REN TV series Soldiers.

Hubert Dietmar Woidke is a German politician of the Social Democratic Party of Germany. Since August 2013, Woidke has served as Minister President of Brandenburg. He is married.

Luis Gatica is a Mexican actor of Chilean and Puerto Rican descent.