List of Famous people who born in 1961

Corinne Hermès is a French singer. She represented Luxembourg at the Eurovision Song Contest 1983 where she won with "Si la vie est cadeau", which brought the Grand-Duchy its fifth and hitherto final victory.

Alain Casanova is a French former footballer who played as a goalkeeper, and current manager.

Abla Khairy is an Egyptian swimmer. At the age of 13, she became the youngest ever swimmer to cross the English Channel when she swam from England to France in August 1974. The previous youngest Channel swimmer was Leonore Modell. Abla's time was 12 hours and 30 minutes, which also beat Modell's mark by three hours.

Anri (杏里), real name Eiko Kawashima , is a Japanese pop singer-songwriter, born in Yamato, Kanagawa Prefecture, Japan.

Steve Holmes is a Romanian-born German pornographic actor, producer, and director. He has received several adult industry awards, including the AVN Award for Male Foreign Performer of the Year in 2005 and 2006. In 2017, Holmes was inducted into the AVN Hall of Fame.

Uwe Wolf is a German musicologist. He worked for the Johann Sebastian Bach Institute in Göttingen and Bach-Archiv Leipzig, where he developed the Bach Digital website. Since 2011, he has been chief editor of Carus-Verlag, editing the 2013 edition of Monteverdi's Vespro della Beata Vergine, among others.

Kim Jong Yang is a South Korean police officer and the President of Interpol.

Shinji Hirai is a Japanese politician the governor of Tottori Prefecture in Japan, first elected in 2007. He graduated from the University of Tokyo with the B.L. degree in 1984 and joined the Ministry of Home Affairs upon graduation.

Édgar Arnold Alarcón Tejada is a Peruvian accountant who served as Comptroller General of the Republic of Peru from June 9, 2016 to July 4, 2017.

Admiral Igor Olegovich Kostyukov is a naval officer and is the current Head of the Russian General Staff's Main Intelligence Department (GRU). He was appointed the acting Director on 22 November 2018 following the death of his predecessor Igor Korobov and is a noted hardliner. This posting also made him the first naval officer in the history of the GRU to take the office of Director of Military Intelligence. He has been placed on the US Government's "blacklist" for allegedly interfering in the 2016 US Presidential elections. He was further promoted to the rank of Admiral in late 2019.