List of Famous people born on January 31st

Pierre Pringuet is a French businessman. He was the chief executive officer of Pernod-Ricard from 2008 to 2015. He serves as its vice president, as well as the president of the French Association of Private Enterprises (AFEP).

Robert Mandrou, was a French historian, one of the members of the Annales School and the secretary to its journal Annales d'Histoire Economique et Sociale. He was also, with Georges Duby one of the pioneers of what Annaliste historians in the 1970s and 80's came to call the "history of mentalities".

Noel Jones is a Jamaican-American minister and a Pentecostal bishop. He is the senior pastor of the City of Refuge Church in Gardena, California, which has about 17,000 members, and was formerly the Greater Bethany Community Church.

Meena Shah was a national badminton champion of India. She died on 10 March 2015, at the Sahara Hospital in Lucknow. Shah won the Senior National Badminton Championships for seven years in a row and also won the women's doubles title three times and the mixed doubles crown twice. She was a recipient of the Padma Shri and the Arjuna award.

Patrick (Pat) McGuigan was an Irish singer born in Clones, County Monaghan.