List of Famous people who born in 1971

Makoto Hasegawa is a Japanese basketball coach and a former player. Hasegawa was the head coach of Akita Northern Happinets. He is the first Japanese player ever to play in the American Basketball Association. Because of his trademark bushy goatee, his nickname is "hige" in Akita. He played for Kosei Club and Akita Northern Bisons as an amateur in his home prefecture. Currently he serves as an unaffiliated director of the Akita Happinets and the Japan national 3x3 team coach.

Zheng Yongshan, who also goes by the name of Mie Taniguchi, is a Chinese immigrant in Japan who was convicted of killing two children and sentenced to life imprisonment.

Rulon Ellis Gardner is an American retired Greco-Roman Olympic Gold Medalist wrestler. He competed at the 2000 and 2004 Olympics and won the gold medal in 2000, defeating Russia's Aleksandr Karelin in the final. Karelin was previously unbeaten for 13 years in international competition. Gardner won a bronze medal at the 2004 Games.

Martin Reim is an Estonian football manager and former professional player.

Evelyn Großmann is a German former figure skater. She is the 1990 European champion and 1991 European silver medallist.

Anna Alexandrovna Plisetskaya is a Russian ballerina, actress and producer.

Kazuki Sakuraba is a Japanese author of novels and light novels, and a Naoki Prize winner.

Stéphane Mifsud is a French free diver born 13 August 1971 in Istres (Bouches-du-Rhône). He is five times world champion in static apnea. His lung capacity was measured at 10.5 litres.

María Alejandra Herrera Andreucci is a Chilean actress known mainly for starring in the telenovelas Amor a domicilio, Adrenalina y Marparaíso on Canal 13 and in La Nany on Mega.

Marcus Urban is a former German football player. He played with the East German national youth football team and in the second division club Rot-Weiß Erfurt in the 1980s and early 1990s. Several years afterwards he came out as a gay man. He has spoken publicly about the difficulties that gay footballers experience, and he is now a spokesperson and campaigner on diversity issues in sport and the workplace.