List of Famous people who born in 1981

Joshua Mann-Rea is a rugby union player. He currently plays for the ACT Brumbies in the southern hemisphere Super Rugby competition. Late in his career, he made his international debut from the bench in Australia's 2014 Championship win against South Africa in Perth. He plays in the position of Hooker.

Alexander James "Ali" Williams is a New Zealand rugby union player who played at lock, spending almost all of his playing career in his homeland. At provincial level, he played mainly with Auckland, though he spent one season with Tasman and was also loaned out to Nottingham in England's second-level RFU Championship in 2010. At Super Rugby level, he played for both the Blues and Crusaders. Williams played for New Zealand's national team, the All Blacks, between 2002 and 2012. He was in the All Blacks' squad for the 2003, 2007 and 2011 World Cups. In 2005, NZ Rugby Almanack chose him as one of its five players of the year. Williams spent what were to have been the final two seasons of his career in France with Toulon, playing there from 2013 to 2015. He came out of retirement to play in the 2016/17 season for top French club Racing 92. On 25 February 2017 Williams was arrested in Paris for allegedly buying cocaine.

Gamal Hamza is an Egyptian former footballer. He played for Zamalek SC for most of his football career. He last played for the Egyptian Premier League side Haras El-Hodood.

Jeremy Patrick Howard, is an American actor. He appeared in the films Sydney White, Galaxy Quest, Accepted, How the Grinch Stole Christmas, and most recently Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles and Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles: Out of the Shadows, where he performed the motion capture and voice for Donatello.

Maria Alejandra Delfino, known professionally as Majandra Delfino, is an American actress and singer. She is best known for her role as Maria DeLuca on Roswell, and as Andi on the CBS sitcom Friends with Better Lives.

Takuya Furuya is a Japanese former professional baseball pitcher in Japan's Nippon Professional Baseball. He played for the Chiba Lotte Marines in 2006 and from 2009 to 2016.

Shim Ji-ho is a South Korean actor. He began his entertainment career as a model, then turned to acting. He has starred in television dramas such as School 2 (1999), My Lovely Family (2004), Our Stance on How to Treat a Break-up (2005) and Color of Women (2011), as well as Park Chul-soo's erotic film Green Chair which premiered at the 2005 Sundance Film Festival.

Gökçek Vederson, is a Brazilian-Turkish footballer who plays for Adana Demirspor.

Kazuya Takamiya is a Japanese professional former baseball pitcher in Japan's Nippon Professional Baseball. He played for the Yokohama BayStars from 2006 to 2010, the Orix Buffaloes in 2011 and 2012, and for the Hanshin Tigers from 2013 to 2017.

Jim Parrack is an American actor best known for his role as Hoyt Fortenberry in HBO series True Blood. He has also appeared in the film Battle: Los Angeles and as "Slim" in the 2014 Broadway production of Of Mice and Men alongside James Franco, Chris O'Dowd and Leighton Meester. In 2020, he began starring in the Fox drama 9-1-1: Lone Star.