List of Famous people who born in 1961

Caitlin Flanagan is an American writer and social critic. A contributor to The Atlantic since February 2001, she was a staff writer for The New Yorker in 2004 and 2005, contributing five articles, including To Hell with All That. In 2019, she was nominated for the Pulitzer Prize for Commentary award.

Kelly Hansen is an American singer, best known as the current lead singer of the rock band Foreigner.

Mark Preston Curry is an English actor and television and radio presenter.

Hideki Kuriyama is a Japanese former Nippon Professional Baseball player and the current manager of the Hokkaido Nippon-Ham Fighters. He played for the Yakult Swallows.

Ronald Alan Klain is an American attorney, political consultant, and former lobbyist, who is currently serving as White House Chief of Staff under President Joe Biden. A Democrat, he was previously Chief of Staff to two Vice Presidents, Al Gore from 1995 to 1999 and Joe Biden from 2009 to 2011. He was also appointed by President Obama as White House Ebola Response Coordinator after reported Ebola virus cases in the United States, serving from 2014 to 2015. Throughout 2020 he worked as a senior advisor to Biden's presidential campaign. Following his victory, Biden announced on November 12 that Klain would serve as White House Chief of Staff.

Lea Katherine Thompson is an American actress, director, and television producer. She is best known for her role as Lorraine Baines in the Back to the Future trilogy and as the title character in the 1990s NBC sitcom Caroline in the City. Other films for which she is known include All the Right Moves (1983), Red Dawn (1984), Howard the Duck (1986), Some Kind of Wonderful (1987), and The Beverly Hillbillies (1993). From 2011 to 2017, she co-starred as Kathryn Kennish in the ABC Family-turned Freeform series Switched at Birth.

Konstantin Lvovich Ernst is a Soviet and Russian media manager, producer and TV host. He is currently the CEO of Channel One Russia.

Rae Dawn Chong is a Canadian-American actress best known for her roles in the films Quest for Fire (1981), Beat Street (1984), The Color Purple and Commando, Boulevard (1994) and Time Runner (1993). She is the daughter of comedian and actor Tommy Chong.

Dylan McDermott is an American actor. He is known for his role as lawyer and law firm head Bobby Donnell on the legal drama series The Practice, which earned him a Golden Globe Award for Best Performance by an Actor in a Television Series – Drama and a nomination for the Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Lead Actor in a Drama Series.

Claude Jacques Puel is a French football manager and former player, who is currently in charge of Saint-Étienne. He spent his entire playing career with AS Monaco, before becoming manager of the club, leading them to the league title in his first full season in charge. He has also managed Lille, Lyon and Nice in Ligue 1, and Southampton and Leicester City in England's Premier League.