List of Famous people born on January 31st

Sir Ewan Cameron of Lochiel was a Scottish highland chief, soldier and Carolean courtier. Lochiel was hereditary chief of Clan Cameron – the 17th Lochiel, and was famed for his participation in the Wars of the Three Kingdoms (1650–1654), the early Jacobite Rebellions (1689–1719) and in the Stuart restoration. Lochiel is remembered as one of the most formidable clan chiefs of the time.

Marina Kielmann is a German former competitive figure skater. She is a four-time European Championship medallist, the 1994 Nations Cup champion and a three-time German national champion (1991–93). She competed at two Winter Olympics and finished fourth at the 1994 World Figure Skating Championships. She was also a three-time World Championship medallist in roller skating.

Michiyo Kogure was a Japanese film actress. She appeared in 89 films between 1939 and 1984. She is known for her starring role as the headstrong housewife who begins to tire of her dull, earnest husband in The Flavor of Green Tea over Rice (1952).

Asqar Asanūly Beisenbaev is a Kazakh politician who's serving as Ambassador to Belarus since 12 August 2019. Prior to that, he served as a Deputy Chair of the Senate of Kazakhstan from 2013 to 2019, and member of the Mazhilis from 2001 to 2008.

Willi Schrade is a German actor. He appeared in more than one hundred films since 1957.

Anthony M. LaPaglia is an Australian actor.

Ōtomo Sōrin , also known as Fujiwara no Yoshishige and Ōtomo Yoshishige, was a Japanese feudal lord (daimyō) of the Ōtomo clan, one of the few to have converted to Roman Catholicism (Christianity). The eldest son of Ōtomo Yoshiaki, he inherited the Funai Domain, on Kyūshū, Japan's southernmost main island, from his father. He is perhaps most significant for having appealed to Toyotomi Hideyoshi to intervene in Kyūshū against the Shimazu clan, thus spurring Hideyoshi's Kyūshū Campaign of 1587.

Ivan Klajn was a Serbian linguist, philologist and language historian, with primary interest in Romance languages and Serbian. He was a regular member of the Serbian Academy of Sciences and Arts, and the editor-in-chief of the Matica srpska's journal Jezik danas. Through his paternal family, which lived in Vukovar for generations, he was of Croatian-Jewish descent.

Ayatollah Taqi Mesbah, commonly known as Mohammad-Taqi Mesbah-Yazdi was an Iranian Shi'i cleric, philosopher and conservative political theorist who served as the spiritual leader of the Front of Islamic Revolution Stability.