List of Famous people born on January 31st

Margaret Elizabeth Ellison is an American film producer and entrepreneur. She is founder of Annapurna Pictures, established in 2011. She produced the films Zero Dark Thirty (2012), Her (2013), American Hustle (2013), and Phantom Thread (2017), all of which have earned her Oscar nominations. In 2014, she was included in the annual Time 100 list of the most influential people in the world.

Francis Wemyss Charteris, Lord Elcho was a Scottish nobleman and Member of Parliament.

Paul Ludwig von Krüdener was a Russian diplomat of Baltic German extraction and the fourth Russian Ambassador to the United States.

Chen Jining is a Chinese academic and politician. He is the current Mayor of Beijing. An environmental engineer by trade, Chen served as the President of Tsinghua University from 2012 to 2015 and Minister of Environmental Protection between 2015 and 2017.

François Barbé-Marbois, marquis de Barbé-Marbois was a French politician.

John Henry O'Hara was one of America's most talented and prolific writers of short stories, credited with helping to invent The New Yorker magazine short story style. He became a best-selling novelist before the age of 30 with Appointment in Samarra and BUtterfield 8. His work is stands out from that of his contemporary authors for its unvarnished realism. While O'Hara's legacy as a writer is debated, his champions rank him highly among the under-appreciated and unjustly neglected major American writers of the 20th century. Few college students educated after O'Hara's death in 1970 have discovered him, chiefly because he refused to allow his work to be reprinted in anthologies used to teach literature at the college level.

Stuart Margolin is an American film, theater, and television actor and director who won two Emmy Awards for playing Evelyn "Angel" Martin on the 1970s television series The Rockford Files.