List of Famous people who born in 1981

Elena Viacheslavovna Dementieva is a Russian former professional tennis player. She won the singles gold medal at the 2008 Olympics in Beijing, having previously won the silver medal at the 2000 Olympics in Sydney. She won 16 WTA singles titles, reached the finals of the 2004 French Open and 2004 US Open and reached seven other Grand Slam semifinals. Dementieva was also part of the Russian team that won the 2005 Fed Cup. In doubles, she won the 2002 WTA Championships with Janette Husárová and was the runner-up in two US Open doubles finals – in 2002 with Husárová and in 2005 with Flavia Pennetta. Dementieva achieved a career-high ranking of world No. 3, which was accomplished on 6 April 2009. She announced her retirement on 29 October 2010, after her final match at the 2010 WTA Championships. Between 2003 and 2010, she only ended one year, in 2007, outside the top 10. She is considered to be one of the most talented players never to have won a Grand Slam tournament.

Jocelin Donahue is an American actress,. She played the lead role in Ti West's critically acclaimed horror film The House of the Devil, winning Best Actress at the 2009 LA Screamfest, and young version of Barbara Hershey's character in Insidious: Chapter 2. In 2015 Donahue starred in the crime thriller The Frontier directed by Oren Shai, and appeared in the 2019 film Doctor Sleep.

Naoki Nakahigashi is a professional Japanese baseball player. He plays outfielder for the Hiroshima Toyo Carp.

Malek Maktabi, also known as Malik Maktaby, born in Beirut, Lebanon on 10 November 1981 is a Lebanese television presenter who is known for hosting Ahmar Bil Khatt Al Aarid, a talk show which runs on the Lebanese Broadcasting Corporation (LBC) TV network.

László Nagy is a former Hungarian handball player who used to play for Telekom Veszprém, FC Barcelona, Pick Szeged and the Hungarian national team.

Admir Teli is an Albanian retired professional footballer who played as a defender. He has spend most of his career in Albania and Azerbaijan, where he collected more than 400 appearances by representing Vllaznia Shkodër and Qarabağ, winning six major trophies in the process.

Michael Alden Hadreas, better known by his stage name Perfume Genius, is an American musician. Hadreas's music explores topics including sexuality, his personal struggle with Crohn's disease, domestic abuse, and the dangers faced by gay men in contemporary society.

Moïn Chaâbani is a former Tunisian footballer and the current manager of Espérance de Tunis.

Philip C. Winchester is an American actor. He is known for his roles in The Patriot, The Hi-Line, LD 50 Lethal Dose, Thunderbirds, CSI: Miami, King Lear, Strike Back, Flyboys, In My Sleep, The Heart of the Earth and Shaking Dream Land. He is mostly known for his role as Peter Stone in Chicago Justice and Law & Order: Special Victims Unit.

Crystle Lea Lightning is a Canadian-American film actress, musician, DJ, and hip-hop MC. A dedicated electro house DJ, Crystle recently moved from the booth to the center-stage mic with her performance partner, MC RedCloud. The pair wrote and recorded a collaborative work LightningCloud (2012) with RedCloud's long-term musical collaborator, DJ Hydroe.