List of Famous people who born in 1961

Yoshimasa Kondo , born on August 13, 1961 in Nagoya, Japan, is a Japanese theatre and film actor.

Eva Illouz is a professor of Sociology at the Hebrew University in Jerusalem and the School for Advanced Studies in the Social Sciences in Paris. She was the first woman president of Bezalel Academy of Art and Design.

Lene Gammelgaard is a Danish author, motivational speaker and mountaineer. She is based in Denmark but has traveled and worked in over 15 countries in pursuit of her speaking career.

Faisal Al-Qasim, also written as Faisal Al-Kasim is a British-Syrian television personality based in Qatar, who is known for hosting the controversial live debate show The Opposite Direction on Al Jazeera, where two guests with contradicting points of views debate on various topics but mostly topics related to politics of the Arab world. Fights break out on some occasions.

Peter Gottfried Kremsner is a specialist in tropical medicine and Full Professor at the University of Tübingen, Germany. Since 1992 he has been leading the Centre de Recherches Médicales de Lambaréné (CERMEL), Gabon, now as president. For about three decades Kremsner has played an important role in the worldwide research of tropical infectious diseases.

Kazimierz Andrew "Casey" Siemaszko is an American actor. Among supporting roles in films such as Back to the Future (1985) and Stand by Me (1986), he also is known for his starring roles in films such as Three O'Clock High (1987) and Breaking In (1989), along with numerous small roles in film and television, and Pat Fraker in NYPD Blue, and as Jack Ruby in Killing Kennedy (2013).

Masurao Hiroo is a Japanese former sumo wrestler, born Hiroo Teshima in Itoda, Fukuoka Prefecture. Making his professional debut in 1979, he reached the top division in 1985. His highest rank was sekiwake and he won five special prizes in his top division career. He was one of the lightest wrestlers in the top division, and very popular with tournament crowds. In his later career he suffered from a number of injuries, particularly to his knee, and he retired in 1990 at the age of 29. He was the head coach of Ōnomatsu stable and a director of the Japan Sumo Association until 2019 when he left for health reasons.

Philippe Decouflé is a French choreographer, dancer, mime artist, and theatre director. As a child he travelled extensively around Lebanon and Morocco before learning his skills as a teenager at the Annie Fratellini École du Cirque and the Marceau Mime School. While frequenting Parisienne nightclubs he discovered and was attracted to contemporary dance, and he eventually moved to the Centre National de la Danse Contemporaine in Angers to study under choreographer Alwin Nicolais. After briefly working as a solo dancer, he formed the Découflé Company of Arts in Bagnolet in 1983, moving it to a former electrical works in the Parisienne suburb of Saint-Denis in 1995.

Livia Leu Agosti is a Swiss diplomat. She is the first female ambassador of Switzerland to France and former Swiss Ambassador to Iran. She served as the ambassador in 2008, succeeding Philip Walty. Agosti was the first European female ambassador and the second female ambassador to serve in Iran after Sierra Leone's Ambassador, Hajia Alari Cole.

Henri Stambouli is an Algerian former football player and manager.