List of Famous people who born in 1961

Calixthe Beyala is a Cameroonian-French writer who writes in French.

Holger Münch is a German police officer and since 2014 president of the Federal Criminal Police Office (Germany).

Paul Moreira is a French journalist and documentary filmmaker. He is based in Paris, France. He has directed several investigative documentaries in conflict zones, including Iraq, Afghanistan, Burma, Palestine, Democratic Republic of Congo and Somalia.

José Anigo is a French football former manager and former defender.

Lucio Ángel Vallejo Balda is a Vatican monsignor who was jailed for leaking official documents in the Vatileaks scandal. The clergyman admitted to passing classified documents to journalists. He is highest-ranking Vatican official ever to be arrested. Pope Francis granted him clemency after he served half of the 18-month jail sentence.

Jean-Sébastien Abaldonato better known as Sébastien El Chato is a French singer and guitar player of Romani origin. He is based in Paris and has had a long string of albums since 1976.

Yakiv Vasilyovich Smolii is a Ukrainian economist and banker and former Chairman of the National Bank of Ukraine. He was acting Governor of the National Bank from 11 May 2017 until the Ukrainian parliament elected him Governor on 15 March 2018. Smolii was dismissed by parliament on 3 July 2020 after he had tendered his resignation, he claimed he had done this as a result of long-standing political pressure.

Admiral Aleksandr Viktorovich Vitko is an officer of the Russian Navy, and a former commander of the Russian Black Sea Fleet between April 2013 and June 2018.

Eustace Robinson Conway IV is an American naturalist and the subject of the book The Last American Man by Elizabeth Gilbert. He has also been the subject of Adventures in the Simple Life by Sarah Vowell on the weekly radio show This American Life with Ira Glass. He is the owner of the 1,000-acre (4.0 km²) Turtle Island Preserve in Boone, North Carolina. He is one of the featured personalities on the History channel show Mountain Men.

Amara Simba is a retired French professional footballer who played as a forward.