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Famous people born on January 31

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Well-known people born on January 31 include Franz Schubert (1797), Kenzaburō Ōe (1935), Beatrix of the Netherlands (1938) and Norman Mailer (1923). Our list below has 109 people for this date, most widely covered first.

This list covers people whose Wikidata record gives January 31 as their exact birth date and who have articles in at least 28 Wikipedia language editions. The earliest birth year here is 1673 (Louis de Montfort) and the most recent is 2001 (Ahed Al-Tamimi). The most common fields on this date: football, actress, writer.

Who was born on January 31?

  1. Franz Schubert 1797 Austrian composer
  2. Kenzaburō Ōe 1935 Japanese writer and Nobel Laureate
  3. Beatrix of the Netherlands 1938 Queen of the Netherlands from 1980 to 2013
  4. Norman Mailer 1923 American writer
  5. Preity Zinta 1975 Indian actress
  6. Irving Langmuir 1881 American chemist and physicist
  7. Rudolf Ludwig Mössbauer 1929 German nuclear physicist and Noble Prize in Physics
  8. Alva Myrdal 1902 Swedish sociologist and politician
  9. Theodor Heuss 1884 German journalist and politician
  10. Kerry Washington 1977 American actress
  11. Julián Alvarez 2000 Argentine footballer
  12. Philip Glass 1937 American composer
  13. Theodore William Richards 1868 United States chemist
  14. Jean Simmons 1929 British-American actress
  15. John Lydon 1956 British-born Irish-American singer and songwriter
  16. Portia de Rossi 1973 Australian-American actress
  17. Helena Paparizou 1982 Greek singer
  18. Suzanne Pleshette 1937 American actress
  19. Fabio Quagliarella 1983 Italian association football player
  20. Tallulah Bankhead 1902 American actress
  21. Jackie Robinson 1919 American baseball player
  22. Guido van Rossum 1956 Dutch programmer and creator of Python
  23. Artur Mas 1956 Spanish politician
  24. Minnie Driver 1970 British-American actress
  25. Müller 1966 Brazilian association football player
  26. Jonathan Banks 1947 American actor
  27. Ju Wenjun 1991 Chinese chess player
  28. James Adomian 1980 American comedian and actor
  29. Carol Channing 1921 American actress
  30. Mario Lanza 1921 American tenor and actor
  31. Sergei Ivanov 1953 Russian senior official and politician
  32. Mahammad Amin Rasulzade 1884 Azerbaijani politician
  33. Lee Young-ae 1971 South Korean actress
  34. Eddie Cantor 1892 American comedian and actor
  35. Jeff Hanneman 1964 American guitarist
  36. Zane Grey 1872 American novelist
  37. Agostino Depretis 1813 Italian politician
  38. Dave Benton 1951 Aruban-Estonian musician
  39. Anthony LaPaglia 1959 Australian actor
  40. Daniel Tammet 1979 British writer, mathematician, essayist and autistic savant
  41. James G. Blaine 1830 American politician
  42. Louis de Montfort 1673 French Catholic saint, priest, and confessor
  43. Nina Sublati 1995 Georgian singer
  44. Ahed Al-Tamimi 2001 Palestinian activist
  45. Amy Jackson 1992 British actress
  46. André Antoine 1858 French actor and director
  47. Kalomira 1985 Greek-American singer
  48. Traianos Dellas 1976 Greek association football player and manager
  49. Hina Sugita 1997 Japanese association football player
  50. Vitalik Buterin 1994 Russian-Canadian computer scientist
  51. Bouna Sarr 1992 Senegalese footballer
  52. Tengiz Abuladze 1924 Soviet film director
  53. Eugène Terre'Blanche 1941 Afrikaner nationalist
  54. Ken Wilber 1949 American writer and public speaker
  55. Lasha Shavdatuashvili 1992 Georgian judoka
  56. Jeff Hendrick 1992 Irish association football player
  57. Hugo Guillamón 2000 Spanish footballer
  58. Rodolphe Töpffer 1799 Swiss teacher, author, painter, cartoonist, and caricature artist
  59. Andrii Parubii 1971 Ukrainian politician
  60. Patricia Velásquez 1971 Venezuelan actress
  61. Kelly Lynch 1959 American actress
  62. Jeremy Wariner 1984 American track athlete
  63. Arnaut Danjuma 1997 Dutch-Nigerian footballer
  64. Amrita Arora 1981 Indian actress
  65. Vladimir Bystrov 1984 Russian footballer
  66. Joseph Kosuth 1945 American conceptual artist
  67. Joanne Dru 1922 American film and television actress
  68. Atahualpa Yupanqui 1908 Argentine musician and writer
  69. Daniela Bianchi 1942 Italian actress
  70. John O'Hara 1905 American journalist and writer
  71. Alan Lomax 1915 American musicologist
  72. Amadou Haidara 1998 Malian association football player
  73. Aboubacar Sangoulé Lamizana 1916 President of Upper Volta and Burkina Faso
  74. Túlio de Melo 1985 Brazilian association football player
  75. Alexey Miller 1962 Russian businessman
  76. Lachlan Macquarie 1762 Scottish British army officer and New South Wales colonial administrator
  77. Oksana Shachko 1987 Ukrainian artist and activist
  78. Abdelmoumene Djabou 1987 Algerian association football player
  79. John Agar 1921 American actor
  80. Jessica Walter 1941 American actress
  81. Freya Madeline Stark 1893 British travel writer
  82. Dexter Fletcher 1966 English actor and director
  83. Sidney Sam 1988 German association football player
  84. Gábor Kósa 1971 Hungarian orientalist, religious historian, university professor
  85. Giorgio Perlasca 1910 Italian self-appointed Spanish diplomat in Hungary who saved 5218 Jews from the Holocaust
  86. Felice Romani 1788 Italian writer
  87. Victor Crone 1992 Swedish singer
  88. Sayan Sanya 1953 Thai singer
  89. Joel Courtney 1996 American actor
  90. Gouverneur Morris 1752 American politician
  91. Derek Jarman 1942 British film director and artist
  92. Johannes Virolainen 1914 Finnish politician
  93. Guido Marini 1965 Italian Roman Catholic Bishop
  94. Željko Šturanović 1960 Prime Minister of Montenegro
  95. Mike Waltz 1974 U.S. Ambassador to the United Nations since 2025
  96. Walter Dix 1986 American sprinter
  97. Adam Federici 1985 Australian association football player
  98. JJ Lehto 1966 Finnish racing driver
  99. Melitta Bentz 1873 German entrepreneur and inventor of the coffee filter
  100. Marie Luise Kaschnitz 1901 German novelist
  101. Shigemitsu Egawa 1966 Japanese association football player
  102. Princess Marie Thérèse, Countess of Artois 1756 Savoyard and French Royal
  103. Cho Mi-yeon 1997 South Korean singer; member of i-dle
  104. Concepción Arenal Ponte 1820 Spanish lawyer, writer and feminist activist, editor
  105. Léo Pereira 1996 Brazilian footballer
  106. Pauline Parmentier 1986 French tennis player
  107. Atsuhiro Iwai 1967 Japanese association football player
  108. Badr El Kaddouri 1981 Moroccan footballer
  109. Virginia Ruzici 1955 Romanian tennis player

Names link to each person's Wikidata entry, the source of the date. Data: Wikidata (CC0), refreshed October 30, 2026. People born on January 31 share the 31st of January as a birthday; check the Famous Birthdays Finder for any other date.

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