List of Famous people born on January 31st

Mayu Hamada is a female Japanese taekwondo practitioner. She participated in the 2012 and 2016 Summer Olympics.

Matthew S. Mahurin is an American illustrator, photographer and film director. Mahurin's illustrations appear in Time, Newsweek, Mother Jones, Rolling Stone, Esquire, Forbes, and The New York Times.

Léon Wurmser was a Swiss psychoanalyst, Clinical Professor of Psychiatry at West Virginia University and a training and supervising analyst of the New York Freudian Society. He was formerly Professor of Psychiatry and Director of the Alcohol and Drug Abuse Program at University of Maryland, Baltimore.

Charles Jules-Joseph de Gaulle was a French writer who was a pioneer of Pan-Celticism and the bardic revival. He is also known as Charlez Vro-C'hall, the Breton language version of his name. He was the uncle of the army officer and statesman Charles de Gaulle.

Maria Theresa of Savoy was a French princess by marriage to Charles Philippe, Count of Artois, grandson of Louis XV and younger brother of Louis XVI. Some nineteen years after her death, her spouse assumed the throne of France as King Charles X.

Theodore William Richards was the first American scientist to receive the Nobel Prize in Chemistry, earning the award "in recognition of his exact determinations of the atomic weights of a large number of the chemical elements."

Bryan Paul Carrasco Santos is a Chilean footballer who currently plays as a right winger for Club Deportivo Palestino.

José Luis Juan Sánchez Solá, commonly referred to as "Chelís", is an analyst for ESPN Deportes.

Yann Eliès is a French professional sailor born on 31 January 1974 in Saint-Brieuc, (Côtes-d'Armor). He competed in the 2008-2009 Vendee Globe where he was evacuated from his yacht South of Australia after being incompacitated due to a fractured femur. He returned for the 2016-2017 Vendée Globe finishing 5th.

Hiroshi Iwata is a Japanese professional golfer who plays on the Japan Golf Tour and the PGA Tour.