1981 births

Swedish female alpine skier

Paraguayan association football player

Joel Thomas Zimmerman (born January 5, 1981), known professionally as Deadmau5 (pronounced "dead-mouse", and stylized in all lowercase), is a Canadian electronic music producer and DJ. His musical style mostly includes progressive house and electro house genres, though he also produces and DJs other genres of electronic music, including techno under the alias Testpilot. Zimmerman mostly appears and performs with a custom helmet called the "mau5head". He has received seven Grammy Award nominations and won four Juno Awards for his songs.

Russian basketball player

Brazilian footballer

Ukrainian politician

Senegalese association football player

Argentine footballer and manager

Polish football referee

Colombian actress

Russian politician and journalist (born 1981)

American actress, songwriter and singer (born 1981)

Michelle Suzanne Dockery is an English actress and singer-songwriter, best known for starring as Lady Mary Crawley in the ITV television period drama series Downton Abbey (2010–2015), for which she was nominated for a Golden Globe Award and three consecutive Primetime Emmy Awards for Outstanding Lead Actress in a Drama Series. She reprised her role in the films Downton Abbey (2019), Downton Abbey: A New Era (2022) and Downton Abbey: The Grand Finale (2025).

Indian film actress

Greek footballer

British Olympic equestrian; daughter of Anne, Princess Royal

American television personality and actress

American-Italian musician

Swedish association football player

Turkish actor and fashion model (born 1981)

American motorcycle racer (1981-2017)

American heavy metal singer

Venezuelan conductor and violinist

American YouTuber (born 1981)

Taylor Kitsch is a Canadian actor. He is known for portraying Tim Riggins in the NBC television series Friday Night Lights (2006–2011). He has also worked in films such as X-Men Origins: Wolverine (2009), Battleship (2012), John Carter (2012), Savages (2012), Lone Survivor (2013), The Grand Seduction (2014), American Assassin (2017), Only The Brave (2017), and 21 Bridges (2019).

Australian singer-songwriter

South African politician and activist

English association football player (born 1981)

Omani association football player

Japanese association football player and manager

Mexican association football player

Carlos Austin Boozer Jr. is an American former professional basketball player. A two-time NBA All-Star, he played for the Cleveland Cavaliers, Utah Jazz, Chicago Bulls, and Los Angeles Lakers, and then spent his last season playing overseas with the Guangdong Southern Tigers. As a member of Team USA, Boozer won an Olympic bronze medal at the 2004 Summer Olympics and an Olympic gold medal at the 2008 Summer Olympics.

British actor

French footballer (born 1981)

Russian-Canadian beauty queen

Japanese figure skater

American basketball player

Czech footballer

Irish professional wrestler

Canadian actress

Indian actress

American singer

English association football player (born 1981)

American television and social media personality

British actor

Romanian writer

German athlete

, better known by his stage name MIYAVI (雅, Miyabi, stylized in all caps), is a Japanese guitarist, singer-songwriter, record producer, and actor known for his finger-slapping style of playing a guitar.

Uruguayan footballer

Spanish footballer

Japanese association football player

Danish footballer

American guitarist

Italian road bicycle racer

Italian footballer

American musician

American actress (born 1981)

Spanish footballer

American rapper

South Korean association football player