List of Famous people who born in 1931

Jaswant Singh is an Indian field hockey player. He was born in Punjab, Pakistan. He won a silver medal at the 1960 Summer Olympics in Rome.

Anne-Marie Blanc is a French writer and novelist. Her first novel, Marie-Romaine, won the Prix Erckmann-Chatrian in 1978.

Ali Aslan is a former chief of staff of the Syrian Army, a member of the Central Committee of the Syrian Regional Branch of the Arab Socialist Ba'ath Party and a close confidant of the late Syrian president Hafez al-Assad. Aslan was not only considered to be powerful member of the late Hafez Assad's inner circle, but he was also regarded by outside observers as having significantly improved Syrian military readiness while operating under severe financial constraints.

Bogumił Kobiela was a Polish stage and film actor. He was an actor of Wybrzeże Theatre, Ateneum Theatre in Warsaw, Komedia Theatre in Warsaw, Bim-Bom student theatre, Kabaret Wagabunda and Kabaret Dudek. He suffered serious injuries in a car crash on 2 July 1969 in Buszkowo. He died eight days later in hospital in Gdańsk.

James T. Russell is an American inventor. He earned a BA in physics from Reed College in Portland in 1953. He joined General Electric's nearby labs in Richland, Washington, where he initiated many types of experimental instrumentation. He designed and built the first electron beam welder.

Johan Martin Schröder is a Dutch pilot and founder of Martinair, the second Dutch airline and the first Dutch air charter company. At the founding in 1958 the company was known as Martin's Air Charter (MAC).

Per Johan Axel Åhlin is a Swedish artist and director of animated films. He is known for his collaborations with the comedy duo Hasse & Tage, and for his own projects such as the feature film The Journey to Melonia.