List of Famous people who born in 1981

Kirk James Hinrich is an American former professional basketball player. He has also been a member of the USA National Team.

İbrahim Öztürk is a Turkish footballer who plays as a central defender for Altay.

Alexis Israel Ríos is an American former professional baseball right fielder. He played in Major League Baseball (MLB) for the Toronto Blue Jays, Chicago White Sox, Texas Rangers, and Kansas City Royals. A World Series champion with the Royals in 2015, Rios is a two-time MLB All-Star. In 2007, he was a Fielding Bible Award winner for right fielders. In 2013, he hit for the cycle and achieved six hits in one game. Rios is a three-time World Baseball Classic participant with the Puerto Rico national baseball team.

Jaime Manuel Penedo Cano is a Panamanian former professional footballer who played as a goalkeeper for various teams such as: Osasuna B, CSD Municipal, LA Galaxy, Deportivo Saprissa or Dinamo București, among others, but also for the Panama national team, being the goalkeeper of the first squad of Panama that ever played in a World Cup. Penedo announced his retirement on 24 January 2019.

Nazril Irham, more popularly known as Ariel, is an Indonesian rock singer-songwriter. He is the lead singer of Indonesian band Noah. Ariel is of Malay descent from his father's side and Minangkabau from his mother's side. He has appeared in advertisements.

Virginie de Clausade is a French-Belgian actress, radio and television presenter.

Ludvig "Ludde" Strigeus is a Swedish programmer, best known for developing software such as the BitTorrent client μTorrent, OpenTTD, and Spotify.

Uta Kargel is a German Playboy model, actor, and voice actor

Jacques Houdek is a Croatian recording artist who represented Croatia in the Eurovision Song Contest 2017 with the song "My Friend". Houdek began his professional solo career in 2000 and has since published many recordings and albums out which 13 have been certified silver, gold, platinum and diamond (once). Houdek is one of the mentors in the Croatian version of the TV talent show "The Voice". During show's first season, he mentored winner Nina Kraljić. Aside from Croatian, he has sung and recorded in English, Italian, German, Spanish, French, Slovene, Macedonian, and Maori language.

Raúl Entrerríos Rodríguez is a Spanish handball player for FC Barcelona and the Spain national team.