List of Famous people who born in 1931

Chris Strachwitz is a German-born American record label executive and record producer. He is the founder and president of Arhoolie Records, which he established in 1960 and which became one of the leading labels recording and issuing blues, Cajun, norteño and other forms of roots music from the United States and elsewhere in the world.

John Norman is the pen name of John Frederick Lange Jr., who is the author of the Gor series of science fantasy novels, and a professor of philosophy.

Jan Gustaf Troell is a Swedish film director. Usually, Troell writes his own scripts and serves as his own director of photography. His realistic films, with a lyrical photography in which nature is prominent, have placed him in the first rank of modern Swedish film directors along with Ingmar Bergman and Bo Widerberg.

Robert Clifford Gunning is a professor of mathematics at Princeton University specializing in complex analysis, who introduced indigenous bundles.

Alberto da Costa e Silva is a Brazilian historian, poet and former diplomat. He won the 2014 Camões Prize.

Jerome Rothenberg is an American poet, translator and anthologist, noted for his work in the fields of ethnopoetics and performance poetry.

Sir William Patrick Deane is an Australian barrister and jurist who served as the 22nd Governor-General of Australia, in office from 1996 to 2001. He was previously a Justice of the High Court of Australia from 1982 to 1995.