List of Famous people who born in 1981

Jordi Graupera i Garcia-Milà is a Catalan post-doc researcher at Woodrow Wilson School of Public and International Affairs, at Princeton University. He works on self-determination and international relations. He got his PhD in Political Philosophy at The New School for Social Research in New York with a critique of the liberal theory of the state. He also works as a journalist for several media in Catalonia and in Spain.

Sébastien Roudet is a French former professional football midfielder.

Dejan Damjanović also known mononymously as Dejan, is a Montenegrin professional footballer who currently plays as a forward for Hong Kong Premier League club Kitchee.

Thiago Soares is a Brazilian ballet dancer. He is a former principal dancer with The Royal Ballet in London.

Alban Skënderaj is an Albanian singer, songwriter, composer, actor, producer and television personality. He was born in Lushnjë and has established himself as a viable alternative and pop rock artist in Albania and the Albanian-speaking world.

Robert Kranjec is a Slovenian former ski jumper.

Anastasiya Igorevna Chernova is a Russian former sailor, who specialized in the Laser Radial class. A two-time national champion, she represented her country Russia at the 2008 Summer Olympics, finishing outside the top 25 in her signature fleet. Serving as a member of the sailing roster at ShVSM Samara, Chernova trained throughout her competitive sporting career under the tutelage of her father Igor Maletin. Currently, she is the head coach of the country's youth sailing squad.

Lu Rui En, better known by her stage name Rui En (瑞恩), is a Singaporean actress and was named as one of the Seven Princesses of Mediacorp in 2006. She was contracted under MediaCorp and managed under Hype Records.

Crystal Lowe is a Canadian actress and model best known for her Scream Queen roles in horror films such as Children of the Corn: Revelation (2001), Final Destination 3 (2006), Black Christmas (2006) and Wrong Turn 2: Dead End (2007) and as Rita Haywith in Hallmark Channel's Signed, Sealed, Delivered television and television film series (2013–2018).

Karolina Wydra is a Polish-American actress and model. She played Dominika Petrova on the Fox medical drama series House, and vampire Violet Mazurski on the HBO dark fantasy series True Blood. Wydra has starred in the fantasy thriller After (2012), and the science fiction film Europa Report (2013). She portrayed Detective Dianne Kubek on ABC's short-lived crime drama series Wicked City and recurred as Izel in Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D.