List of Famous people born on August 31st

Kieran James Crowley is a New Zealand rugby union coach, who was previously head coach of the Canadian men's rugby team. He is now the head coach of Italian side Benetton. He is a former member of the New Zealand All Blacks where he played as a fullback. He has also coached the New Zealand Under-19s in the 2007 World Championships as well as coaching provincial side Taranaki.

Lyuboslav Mladenov Penev is a Bulgarian professional football manager and former player, who is the current manager of Bulgarian First League club Tsarsko Selo Sofia.

Jakub Słowik is a Polish footballer who plays for Vegalta Sendai in the J1 League.

Luke Brookshier was an American writer, storyboard artist and storyboard director. He is known as a storyboard director and writer for the animated series SpongeBob SquarePants and he was nominated for an Emmy Award for "Outstanding Animated Program" for writing the SpongeBob SquarePants episode "Wigstruck". After SpongeBob, Brookshier went on to work as writer and storyboard artist in the first season of Uncle Grandpa. He studied animation at the California Institute of Arts. He was also a storyboard artist for the animated series Kim Possible and worked on the character layout for King of the Hill. He also had one of his shows turned into a Golden Book: Mr FancyPants!. He storyboarded the Gravity Falls episode, "The Hand that Rocks the Mabel" and the Wabbit episode, "Sun Valley Freeze".

Manuel António Tavares Cunha is a Portuguese former road cyclist. Professional from 1985 to 1994, he most notably won the 1987 Volta a Portugal and the 1987 and 1986 Volta ao Algarve. He also rode in four editions of the Vuelta a España.