List of Famous people who born in 1981

Bruno Manuel Pires Silva is a Portuguese former professional road bicycle racer, who competed professionally between 2002 and 2016.

Ye Li is a Chinese professional basketball player who played for the China women's national basketball team at the 2004 Summer Olympics.

Urška Žolnir is a Slovenian judoka. She's a member of Judo Club Sankaku Celje.

Nadifa Mohamed is a Somali-British novelist. She featured on Granta magazine's list "Best of Young British Novelists" in 2013, and in 2014 on the Africa39 list of writers aged under 40 with potential and talent to define future trends in African literature. Her 2021 novel, The Fortune Men, was shortlisted for the 2021 Booker Prize, making her the first British Somali novelist to get this honour. She has also written short stories, essays, memoirs and articles in outlets including The Guardian, and contributed poetry to the anthology New Daughters of Africa. She was also a lecturer in Creative Writing in the Department of English at Royal Holloway, University of London until 2021. She will be Distinguished Writer in Residence at New York University in Spring 2022.

Tomasz Majewski is a Polish shot putter and a double Olympic gold medalist. He is the third shot putter to successfully defend the Olympic title, first European to do so, and the first since Parry O'Brien in 1956.