List of Famous people who born in 1931

Galina Ivanovna Zybina is a retired Russian athlete and coach. She competed in the shot put at the 1952, 1956, 1960 and 1964 Olympics and finished in first, second, seventh and third place, respectively; in 1952 she also finished fourth in the javelin throw. Between 1952 and 1956 she set eight consecutive world records and 14 national records in the shot put. In 1953, she became the first woman to throw over 16 meters.

Andreas Antonius Maria "Dries" van Agt is a retired Dutch politician and diplomat of the defunct Catholic People's Party (KVP) and later the Christian Democratic Appeal (CDA) party and jurist who served as Prime Minister of the Netherlands from 19 December 1977 until 4 November 1982.

Ayatollah Sayyid Murtadha al-Musawi al-Qazwini is a senior Iraqi Shia jurist, poet and orator of Iranian descent.

Giorgos Vasos Vassiliou is a Cypriot politician who served as the third President of Cyprus from 1988 to 1993. He was also the founder and leader of the Cypriot United Democrats party (EDI) and a highly successful businessman.

Richard Sheldon Palais is a mathematician working in geometry who introduced the Principle of Symmetric Criticality, the Mostow–Palais theorem, the Lie–Palais theorem, the Morse–Palais lemma, and the Palais–Smale compactness condition.

Han Chang-woo is a Zainichi Korean businessman who is the CEO of the pachinko management company, Maruhan (マルハン).