List of Famous people who born in 1981

Ryota Wakiya is a Japanese Nippon Professional Baseball player for the Yomiuri Giants in Japan's Central League.

Asier del Horno Cosgaya is a Spanish retired footballer who played as a left back.

Takeshi Honda is a former Japanese competitive figure skater. He is a two-time World bronze medalist, two-time Four Continents champion, and six-time Japanese national champion.

Roman Rotenberg is a business man and entrepreneur who was born on 7 April 1981 in Leningrad, the USSR. He holds the following posts: first vice-president of the Russian Ice Hockey Federation, head of the Russia national ice hockey team staff including the analytical and statistical departments, Gazprombank vice-president, member of the Kontinental Hockey League board of directors, Deputy Chairman of the KHL board, Deputy Chairman of the SKA Hockey Club board of directors, SKA vice-president, founder of the Doctor Sport company Vitawin brand which deals with the distribution of sports nutrition. Founder of a number of other companies in the sports marketing, media and sports equipment markets. He is also active in these following fields: owner of the Hartwall Arena stadium, chairman of the Arena Events board of directors and is Gazprom Export's consultant on external communications.

Julie-Marie Parmentier is a French actress.

Maxim Znak is a Belarusian lawyer and politician, part of Viktar Babaryka's team, lawyer of Sviatlana Tsikhanouskaya, and a member of the presidium of the Coordination Council formed during the 2020–21 Belarusian protests in opposition to the rule of Alexander Lukashenko. Along with fellow opposition leader Maria Kolesnikova, Znak actively participated in the demonstrations and protests against the Lukashenko government after Sviatlana Tsikhanouskaya had left the country. He was sentenced to 10 years in prison by the Belarusian authorities.

Norbert Feher, also known as "Igor the Russian", "Igor Vaclavic" and "Ezequiel", is a Serbian criminal of Hungarian ethnicity. He is credited with various crimes of murder and robbery in Italy and Spain. He is currently in the latter serving his sentence after being captured after his last crime in Andorra, Teruel, Spain.

Ayako Valentina Hamada Villarreal is a Mexican professional wrestler. During her 20-year career, Hamada wrestled for various promotions, including All Japan Women's Pro-Wrestling, Gaea Japan and Pro Wrestling Wave in Japan, Consejo Mundial de Lucha Libre (CMLL) and Lucha Libre AAA Worldwide in Mexico and Shimmer Women Athletes and Total Nonstop Action Wrestling (TNA) in the United States. She is the daughter of Gran Hamada and the younger sister of Xóchitl Hamada.

Peter Osaze Odemwingie is a retired Nigerian professional footballer who played as a forward and winger.

Christian Sugiono is an Indonesian actor and model of mixed German, Chinese and Javanese descent.