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Famous people born on July 31
Short answer
Well-known people born on July 31 include J. K. Rowling (1965), Milton Friedman (1912), Louis de Funès (1914) and Premchand (1880). Our list below has 91 people for this date, most widely covered first.
This list covers people whose Wikidata record gives July 31 as their exact birth date and who have articles in at least 28 Wikipedia language editions. The earliest birth year here is 1704 (Gabriel Cramer) and the most recent is 2005 (Mike Penders). The most common fields on this date: football, actor, actress.
Who was born on July 31?
- J. K. Rowling 1965 English author
- Milton Friedman 1912 American economist and statistician
- Louis de Funès 1914 French actor and comedian
- Premchand 1880 Indian writer of Hindi and Urdu fiction; pioneer of social realism in Hindustani…
- Richard Griffiths 1947 British actor
- Victoria Azarenka 1989 Belarusian tennis player
- Wesley Snipes 1962 American actor
- Jean Dubuffet 1901 French artist
- Friedrich Wöhler 1800 German chemist
- Antonio Conte 1969 Italian association football player and manager
- Geraldine Chaplin 1944 British-American actress
- Shinzō Kōroki 1986 Japanese association football player
- Zelda Williams 1989 American actress
- Paul D. Boyer 1918 American biochemist
- Loujain al-Hathloul 1989 Saudi Arabian activist
- John Searle 1932 American philosopher
- Kiara Advani 1991 Indian film actress
- Carlos Marchena 1979 Spanish footballer
- Michael Biehn 1956 American actor
- Stephanie L. Kwolek 1923 American chemist, inventor of Kevlar
- Hilary Putnam 1926 American philosopher and mathematician
- Paulo Wanchope 1976 Costa Rican association football player
- Cees Nooteboom 1933 Dutch writer
- Robert C. Merton 1944 American economist
- Yoshiyuki Matsuyama 1966 Japanese association football player
- Evonne Goolagong Cawley 1951 Australian Aboriginal tennis player
- Michael Bradley 1987 American soccer player and coach
- Hayuma Tanaka 1982 Japanese association football player
- Kyle Larson 1992 American racing driver
- Fatima Jinnah 1893 Pakistani dental surgeon, biographer and stateswoman
- Peter Benenson 1921 English human rights activist
- Besart Abdurahimi 1990 Macedonian association football player
- Richart Báez 1973 Paraguayan association football player
- Elivélton Alves Rufino 1971 Brazilian association football player
- Mumtaz 1947 Indian film actress
- Emilia Fox 1974 British actress and presenter
- Jean-Paul Vonderburg 1964 Swedish association football player
- Dean Cain 1966 American actor
- Peter Rosegger 1843 Austrian poet and writer
- Will Champion 1978 English drummer
- Gabriel Cramer 1704 Genevan mathematician
- Mark Cuban 1958 American investor and entrepreneur
- Alissa White-Gluz 1985 Canadian singer
- Erich Heckel 1883 German artist
- Abelardo de la Espriella 1978 43ᵗʰ President of Colombia since 2026
- M. Shadows 1981 American heavy metal singer
- C. C. Catch 1964 Dutch-German pop singer
- Junji Itō 1963 Japanese horror writer and mangaka
- Anabel Medina Garrigues 1982 Spanish tennis player
- Clemente Rodríguez 1981 Argentine association football player
- Deval Patrick 1956 Governor of Massachusetts from 2007 to 2015
- Wunmi Mosaku 1986 Nigerian actress
- Kim Sae-ron 2000 South Korean actress
- Mario Bava 1914 Italian filmmaker, screenwriter, special effects artist and cinematographer
- Maiko Nasu 1984 Japanese association football player
- Bon-Adrien Jeannot de Moncey 1754 French soldier, politician and officer
- Boniface Alexandre 1936 Haitian politician
- Ignacio Zoco 1939 Spanish footballer
- José Santamaría 1929 Uruguayan and Spanish footballer
- Amélie of Leuchtenberg 1812 Empress consort of Brasil
- Charlie Carver 1988 American actor
- Princess Augusta of Great Britain 1737 British princess
- Carl Friedrich Goerdeler 1884 German politician and member of the 20 July plot
- Ivan Rebroff 1931 German singer
- Brimin Kipruto 1985 Kenyan middle distance runner
- Don Murray 1929 American actor
- Ira Losco 1981 Maltese singer and songwriter
- Filipa Azevedo 1991 Portuguese singer
- Geoffrey Lewis 1935 American actor
- Quincy Hall 1998 American athlete
- Mike Penders 2005 Belgian footballer
- Edita Piekha 1937 French, Soviet and Russian singer and actress
- Shigenori Hagimura 1976 Japanese association football player
- Rico Rodriguez 1998 American actor
- Bill Weld 1945 American politician, Governor of Massachusetts
- Marc López 1982 Catalan tennis player
- Rudolf Slánský 1901 Czechoslovak politician
- Paul du Chaillu 1835 French-American anthropologist, zoologist and traveler
- Evgeni Malkin 1986 Russian ice hockey player
- Bill Berry 1958 American musician; drummer for R.E.M.
- John Tong Hon 1939 Catholic cardinal
- Justin Wilson 1978 English racing driver
- Richard Berry 1950 French actor, film director, screenwriter
- Henri Brisson 1835 French politician
- José Canalejas 1854 Spanish politician
- John Ericsson 1803 Swedish-US engineer
- Alexis Knapp 1989 American actress
- Wilfredo Leon 1993 Cuban-Polish volleyball player
- Per Krøldrup 1979 Danish footballer
- Mikko Hirvonen 1980 Finnish racecar driver
- Calvin Ramsey 2003 Scottish association football player
Names link to each person's Wikidata entry, the source of the date. Data: Wikidata (CC0), refreshed October 30, 2026. People born on July 31 share the 31st of July as a birthday; check the Famous Birthdays Finder for any other date.