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Famous People Born in 1961

1961: 217 people

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Katsuaki Nakamura (中村 克明, Nakamura Katsuaki; born 19 September 1961), pen name Katsu Aki (克・亜樹), is a Japanese manga…

Kiichi Nakai (中井 貴一, Nakai Kiichi; born September 18, 1961) is a Japanese actor. His name was given by Yasujirō Ozu.…

Shinji Hirai (平井 伸治, Hirai Shinji; born 17 September 1961) is a Japanese politician, the governor of Tottori Prefecture…

Fiona Caroline Graham (16 September 1961 – 26 January 2023) was an Australian anthropologist working as a geisha in…

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Kazutomo Yoneyama

米山一朋
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Kazutomo Yoneyama (米山 一朋, Yoneyama Kazutomo; born 12 September 1961) is a Japanese volleyball player. He competed in…

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Akihiko Shiota (塩田 明彦, Shiota Akihiko) (born 11 September 1961, Maizuru, Kyoto) is a Japanese film director and…

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Akira Kuroiwa (黒岩 彰, Kuroiwa Akira; born 6 September 1961) is a former speed skater from Japan, who represented his…

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Hideyuki Nakano

中野英幸
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Hideyuki Nakano (born 6 September 1961) is a Japanese politician who is a member of the House of Representatives of…

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Toshinobu Katsuya (勝矢 寿延, Katsuya Toshinobu; born September 2, 1961) is a former Japanese football player. He played…

Kenji Wakamiya (若宮 健嗣, Wakamiya Kenji; born 2 September 1961) is a Japanese politician of the Liberal Democratic Party…

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Tetsuo Hara (Japanese: 原 哲夫, Hepburn: Hara Tetsuo; born September 2, 1961) is a Japanese manga artist. He is best known…

Eiko Kawashima (川島 栄子, Kawashima Eiko; born 31 August 1961), better known as Anri (杏里), is a Japanese pop singer from…

Yutaka Ikeuchi (池内 豊, Ikeuchi Yutaka; born 25 August 1961) is a former Japanese football player and manager who is…

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Nobuhiro Tanabe

田辺信宏
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Nobuhiro Tanabe (田辺 信宏, Tanabe Nobuhiro; born 20 August 1961 in Shizuoka City) is a Japanese politician. He entered…

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Yukari Sato

佐藤ゆかり
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Yukari Satō (佐藤 ゆかり, Satō Yukari; born 19 August 1961) is a Japanese economist and former politician of the Liberal…

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Takashi Aoyagi (青柳 隆志, Aoyagi Takashi; born August 17, 1961 in Chiba) is a Japanese scholar of Japanese literature and…

Jun Suzuki (鈴木 淳, Suzuki Jun; born August 17, 1961) is a former Japanese football player and managed the dissolved JFL…

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Atsushi Oyagi

大八木淳史
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Atsushi Oyagi (大八木淳史, Ōyagi Atsushi) (born August 15, 1961, in Ukyō) is a former rugby union player who played as lock…

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Satoshi Tsunami (都並 敏史, Tsunami Satoshi; born 14 August 1961) is a Japanese football manager and former player. He is…

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Mikio Shimoji

下地幹郎
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Mikio Shimoji (下地 幹郎, Shimoji Mikio; born 14 August 1961) is a former Japanese politician, who served as a member of…

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Yoshimasa Kondo

近藤芳正
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Yoshimasa Kondo (近藤 芳正, Kondō Yoshimasa) (born August 13, 1961 in Nagoya, Japan) is a Japanese theatre and film actor.

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Koji Kondo (Japanese: 近藤 浩治, Hepburn: Kondō Kōji; born August 13, 1961) is a Japanese composer and senior executive at…

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Rumi Matsui

松井るみ
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Rumi Matsui (松井るみ, born in Osaka, Japan) is a Japanese set designer and scenographer based in Tokyo. She is the…

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Makoto Tezuka (手塚 眞, Tezuka Makoto; born 11 August 1961), officially romanized as Macoto Tezka, is a Japanese film and…

Satoshi Miki (三木 聡, Miki Satoshi; born 9 August 1961) is a Japanese film director and screenwriter. He has directed and…

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Naomichi Matsumoto (松本 直通, Matsumoto Naomichi; born August 3, 1961) is a Japanese physician and medical geneticist who…

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Natsuko Fujimori

藤森奈津子
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Natsuko Fujimori (藤森 奈津子, Fujimori Natsuko; born August 2, 1961) is a retired Japanese women's professional shogi…

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Sugao Kambe (神戸 清雄, Kambe Sugao; born August 2, 1961) is a Japanese football manager and former player who was recently…

Keiko Matsui (松居 慶子, Matsui Keiko; born 26 July 1961, as Keiko Doi) is a Japanese keyboardist and composer…

Rimi Yokota (横田 利美, Yokota Rimi) (born July 25, 1961) is a Japanese professional wrestler and later wrestling trainer…

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Hiroyuki Kitazume (北爪 宏幸, Kitazume Hiroyuki; born July 24, 1961 in Tokyo) is a Japanese animator, manga artist and…

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Yasuhiro Imagawa (今川 泰宏, Imagawa Yasuhiro; born July 24, 1961) is a Japanese anime director and screenwriter.

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Kenji Haga

羽賀研二
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Mikio Tōma (當眞 美喜男, Tōma Mikio; born July 21, 1961), known professionally as Kenji Haga (羽賀 研二, Haga Kenji), is a…

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Masaaki Akaike

赤池誠章
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Masaaki Akaike (赤池 誠章, Akaike Masaaki; born 19 July 1961) is a Japanese politician of the Liberal Democratic Party, who…

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Hideo Nakata (中田 秀夫, Nakata Hideo; born July 19, 1961) is a Japanese filmmaker, most famous for his 1998 film Ring.

Takeshi Oki (大木 武, Ōki Takeshi; born July 16, 1961) is a former Japanese football player and manager. He is the current…

Toyohito Ikeda (池田豊人, Ikeda Toyohito; born 15 July 1961) is a Japanese politician. He currently serves as governor of…

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Keiko Saito

斉藤慶子
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For the wrestler, see Keiko Saito (wrestler). Keiko Saito (斉藤 慶子, Saitō Keiko; born 14 July 1961) is a Japanese actress…

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Takahisa Takahara

高原豪久
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Takahisa Takahara (born 12 July 1961) is a Japanese businessman, the CEO of Unicharm. Takahisa Takahara was born in the…

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Masaaki Mori (森 正明, Mori Masaaki; born July 12, 1961) is a former Japanese football player. He played for Japan…

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Sakiko Nozawa

野沢咲子
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Sakiko Nozawa (野沢 咲子, Nozawa Sakiko; born 12 July 1961) is a Japanese gymnast. She competed in six events at the 1976…

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Mikiko Miki

三輝みきこ
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Mikiko Miki (三輝みきこ, Miki Mikiko; born on July 9, 1960) is a Japanese actress. Perhaps her best-known role is as…

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Kinoarashi Kazutoshi

騏乃嵐和稔
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Kinoarashi Kazutoshi (born 9 July 1961 as Kazutoshi Ishiyama) is a former sumo wrestler from Yūbari, Hokkaidō, Japan.…

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Kōki Mitani (三谷 幸喜, Mitani Kōki; born July 8, 1961) is a Japanese playwright, screenwriter, actor and film director. He…

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Tatsuya Ito

伊藤達也
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Tatsuya Ito (伊藤 達也, Itō Tatsuya; born 6 July 1961) is a member of the House of Representatives in the National Diet of…

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Saki Hiwatari (日渡 早紀, Hiwatari Saki; born July 5, 1961) is a Japanese manga artist best known for her science fiction…

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Eiko Matsumura

松村栄子
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Eiko Matsumura (松村栄子; born July 3, 1961) is a Japanese novelist. She is best known for her novel Abaton (至高聖所(アバトーン))…

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Shin Misawa (三沢 伸, Misawa Shin) is a Japanese anime director and storyboard artist. He is on general staff at Studio…

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