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Famous people born on May 31

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Well-known people born on May 31 include Walt Whitman (1819), Clint Eastwood (1930), Svetlana Alexievich (1948) and Viktor Orbán (1963). Our list below has 92 people for this date, most widely covered first.

This list covers people whose Wikidata record gives May 31 as their exact birth date and who have articles in at least 28 Wikipedia language editions. The earliest birth year here is 1597 (Jean-Louis Guez de Balzac) and the most recent is 2001 (Iga Świątek). The most common fields on this date: football, writer, actress.

Who was born on May 31?

  1. Walt Whitman 1819 American poet, essayist and journalist
  2. Clint Eastwood 1930 American actor and film director
  3. Svetlana Alexievich 1948 Belarusian investigative journalist and non-fiction prose writer
  4. Viktor Orbán 1963 Prime Minister of Hungary (1998–2002; 2010–2026)
  5. Saint-John Perse 1887 French poet and diplomat
  6. Marco Reus 1989 German association football player
  7. Colin Farrell 1976 Irish actor
  8. Brooke Shields 1965 U.S. model and actress
  9. Laurent Gbagbo 1945 4th President of Ivory Coast
  10. Maurice Allais 1911 French economist
  11. Dina Boluarte 1962 Peruvian lawyer and politician, president of Peru from 2022 to 2025
  12. John Robert Schrieffer 1931 American physicist
  13. Iga Świątek 2001 Polish tennis player
  14. Rainier III, Prince of Monaco 1923 Prince of Monaco from 1949 to 2005
  15. Ludwig Tieck 1773 German poet, writer, and critic
  16. John Bonham 1948 English drummer
  17. Don Ameche 1908 American actor
  18. William Nordhaus 1941 American economist
  19. Paolo Sorrentino 1970 Italian film director and screenwriter
  20. Natasha Korolyova 1973 Russian singer
  21. Konstantin Paustovsky 1892 Russian writer
  22. Charles Greeley Abbot 1872 American astrophysicist and the 5th Secretary of the Smithsonian
  23. Frei Otto 1925 German architect
  24. Alida Valli 1921 Italian actress
  25. Louis Ignarro 1941 American physiologist
  26. Bernard Lewis 1916 British-American historian
  27. Lauri Kristian Relander 1883 Finnish politician; the 2nd President of Finland
  28. Sandrine Bonnaire 1967 French actress, film director and screenwriter
  29. Lea Thompson 1961 American actress
  30. Michał Korybut Wiśniowiecki 1640 King of Poland and Grand Duke of Lithuania
  31. Mikhail Nesterov 1862 Russian artist
  32. Azealia Banks 1991 American rapper, singer, songwriter, actress, and businesswoman
  33. Julius Richard Petri 1852 German microbiologist
  34. Daniele Bonera 1981 Italian association football player
  35. Daniel Wass 1989 Danish association football player
  36. Bas Dost 1989 Dutch association football player
  37. Norman Vincent Peale 1898 American writer and minister
  38. Denholm Elliott 1922 British actor
  39. Peter Howitt 1946 Canadian economist
  40. Marin Marais 1656 French composer and viol player
  41. Andrea de Cesaris 1959 Italian racing driver
  42. Koki Anzai 1995 Japanese association football player
  43. Georg Herwegh 1817 Poet and politician
  44. Fred Allen 1894 American comedian
  45. Henry Sidgwick 1838 English philosopher
  46. Miyuki Izumi 1975 Japanese association football player
  47. John George Kemeny 1926 Jewish-Hungarian American mathematician, computer scientist, educator, and President…
  48. Normani 1996 American singer and dancer
  49. Archie Panjabi 1972 British actress
  50. Joachim Andersen 1996 Danish association football player
  51. Ayad Allawi 1944 Prime Minister of Iraq from 2004 to 2005
  52. Nate Robinson 1984 American basketball player
  53. Susie Essman 1955 American stand-up comedian, actress, writer, television producer, and voice artist
  54. Francis Younghusband 1863 British army explorer
  55. Sara Duterte 1978 Vice President of the Philippines since 2022
  56. Michal Sadílek 1999 Czech association football player
  57. Milorad Čavić 1984 Serbian swimmer
  58. John Prescott 1938 British politician
  59. Edgar Savisaar 1950 Estonian politician
  60. Jean-Louis Guez de Balzac 1597 French author, best known for his epistolary essays
  61. Jean Rouch 1917 French film director and ethnologist
  62. Chris Elliott 1960 American actor, writer, and comedian
  63. Sopho Khalvashi 1986 Georgian singer
  64. Menahem Golan 1929 Israeli film director and producer
  65. Salmaan Taseer 1944 Pakistani politician
  66. Ahilyabai Holkar 1725 Queen of Indore
  67. Eric Christian Olsen 1977 American actor
  68. Sharon Gless 1943 American actress
  69. Tommy Emmanuel 1955 Australian guitarist
  70. Karl August von Hardenberg 1750 Chancellor of Prussia
  71. Diana Damrau 1971 German soprano opera singer
  72. Mikael Antonsson 1981 Swedish footballer
  73. Ellsworth Kelly 1923 American painter, sculptor, and printmaker
  74. Princess Maria Josepha of Saxony 1867 Archduchess of Austria
  75. Toni Nieminen 1975 Finnish ski jumper
  76. Sebastian Koch 1962 German actor
  77. Jim Bolger 1935 Prime Minister of New Zealand from 1990 to 1997
  78. Pablo Alborán 1989 Spanish musician, singer and songwriter, football player
  79. Heorhiy Bushchan 1994 Ukrainian footballer
  80. Jean-François Gillet 1979 Belgian association football player
  81. Eric Moussambani Malonga 1978 Equatoguinean swimmer
  82. Marlies Schild 1981 Former Austrian Alpine skier
  83. Martin Schwarzschild 1912 German astronomer
  84. Sho Naruoka 1984 Japanese association football player
  85. Catherine-Dominique Pérignon 1754 Marshal of France
  86. Jonathan Tucker 1982 American actor
  87. Mark Dindal 1960 American effects animator and film director
  88. Walter Sickert 1860 British artist
  89. CupcakKe 1997 Chicago rapper
  90. John George II, Elector of Saxony 1613 Elector of Saxony from 1656 to 1680
  91. Sobhita Dhulipala 1992 Indian model, actress
  92. José Campaña 1993 Spanish footballer

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

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