List of Famous people born on August 31st

François Emery Tolenga Lumumba, alternatively François Hemery Flory, is a Congolese politician, the son of Patrice Lumumba, and the leader of a faction of the Mouvement National Congolais-Lumumba (MNC-L).

Janus Metz Pedersen is a Danish film director and documentary filmmaker.

Martin Rosen is an American filmmaker and theater producer. He directed the animated film adaptations of Watership Down (1978) and The Plague Dogs (1982), both from the Richard Adams novels.

Kevin Willmott is an Academy Award Winning American film director and screenwriter, and professor of film at the University of Kansas. He is known for work focusing on black issues including writing and directing Ninth Street, C.S.A.: The Confederate States of America, and Bunker Hill. His The Only Good Indian (2009) was a feature film about Native American children at an Indian boarding school and the forced assimilation that took place. In Jayhawkers (2014), he followed the life of Wilt Chamberlain, Phog Allen and the 1956 Kansas Jayhawks basketball team. Willmott has collaborated with Spike Lee, with whom he shared an Academy Award for Best Adapted Screenplay for BlacKkKlansman. The two again collaborated in writing Da 5 Bloods, released worldwide digitally on June 12, 2020.

Lígia Maria Camargo Silva Cortez is a Brazilian actor, theatre director, art educator and researcher. Lígia Cortez is the daughter of the actors Célia Helena and Raul Cortez and sister of the theatre and dance director Elisa Ohtake.

Ahn Sun-ju, or Sun-ju Ahn is a South Korean professional golfer currently playing on the LPGA of Japan Tour. She led the LPGA of Japan Tour money list in 2010, 2011, 2014, and 2018.

Anne Skelbæk is a Danish badminton player from the Værløse badminton club. In 2008, she has won some women's doubles title at the International Series tournament in Greece, Cyprus, and Czech Republic partnered with Maria Helsbøl. In 2010, she and Helsbøl also won the 2009–10 European Circuit Finals. Teamed-up with Anders Skaarup Rasmussen in the mixed doubles, they won the Dutch and Czech International Challenge tournament.