List of Famous people born on August 31st

Nayla Tueni Maktabi is a Lebanese journalist and politician. She was a member of the Lebanese Parliament for almost ten years (2009-2018), representing the district of Achrafieh. Tueni is the CEO of one of Lebanon's most famous newspaper, An-Nahar.

Germaine Damar is a Luxembourg actress and dancer. Sometimes she used the stage name Ria Poncelet. She started her career as an acrobat and played in nearly 30 German films, including three films in which she was the partner of Peter Alexander.

Andrejus Zadneprovskis is a retired Lithuanian modern pentathlete who won the silver medal at the 2004 Summer Olympics in Athens, Greece, as well as bronze medal at the 2008 Summer Olympics in Beijing. Zadneprovskis won the Gold medal in the Modern Pentathlon World Championships in the year of 2000 and 2004. He also earned the bronze medal at the Modern Pentathlon World Championships 2006 in Guatemala. In 2010 he retired from sport due to health problems.

Giovanni Veronesi is an Italian film screenwriter, actor and director. Born in Prato, he is the brother of the writer Sandro Veronesi.

Yossef (Joseph) Cedar is an Israeli film director and screenwriter.