List of Famous people born on December 31st

Xavier Lemaître is a French actor.

Mio Takaki is a Japanese actress and singer.

Yury Ivanovich Borisov is a Russian politician who has served as the Deputy Prime Minister of Russia since 2018.

Maki Kawase is a Japanese voice actress from Chiba Prefecture who is affiliated with Arts Vision. She played her first main role in 2018, voicing the character Elle Hoshino in the anime television series Dragon Pilot: Hisone and Masotan. She is also known for her roles as Junko Konno in Zombie Land Saga, Yakumo Saotome in Val × Love, Kunai Zenow in Monster Girl Doctor, and Yuna in Kuma Kuma Kuma Bear.

Iêda Maria Brutto Vargas is a Brazilian actress and beauty queen who was crowned Miss Universe in Miami Beach, Florida in 1963. Previously, she was Miss Brazil and was crowned by Maria Olívia Rebouças. She was the first person from her country to win a major international beauty pageant. Vargas is a native of Rio Grande do Sul. During her term she opened the Capital Plaza Mall in Landover Hills, Maryland, a suburb of Washington, D.C.

Ludovic Régis Arsène Blas is a French professional footballer who plays as a midfielder for Nantes in Ligue 1.

Eliot Ward Higgins, who previously wrote under the pseudonym Brown Moses, is a British citizen journalist and former blogger, known for using open sources and social media for investigations. He has investigated the Syrian Civil War, 2014–15 Russian military intervention in Ukraine, the downing of Malaysia Airlines Flight 17 and the Poisoning of Sergei and Yulia Skripal. He first gained mainstream media attention by identifying weapons in uploaded videos from the Syrian conflict. He is the founder of Bellingcat, a website for the citizen journalist to investigate current events using open-source information such as videos, maps and pictures.

Anwar Usman is the sixth Chief Justice of the Constitutional Court of Indonesia. He was elected to the position on 2 April 2018, replacing Arief Hidayat. He previously served as the fifth Deputy Chief Justice of the Constitutional Court of Indonesia. Usman served on the Constitutional Court for four years prior to his confirmation as Deputy Chief Justice. Before replacing Arsyad Sanusi as a sitting justice on the court in April 2011, Usman was a high court judge in Jakarta as well as the manager of human resources at the Supreme Court of Indonesia.

Liu Ning is a Chinese politician, serving since August 2018 as the Governor of Qinghai. He spent much of his career in water resources.

Lago Junior Wakalible, known as Junior, is an Ivorian footballer who plays for Spanish club RCD Mallorca as a forward.