List of Famous people born on May 31st

Lauri Kristian Relander was the second President of Finland (1925–1931). A prominent member of the Agrarian League, he served as a member of Parliament, and as Speaker, before his election as President.

Victor J. Zolfo is a set decorator who has worked in the film industry since the late 1980s. Zolfo won the Academy Award for Best Art Direction and the BAFTA Award for Best Production Design for the 2008 film The Curious Case of Benjamin Button, sharing the awards for the film with art director and production designer Donald Graham Burt. He was also part of the 20-person team who won the Art Directors Guild's Excellence in Production Design Award for The Curious Case of Benjamin Button.

Mara Dyrce Abrantes da Silva Santos, better known as Mara Abrantes was a Brazilian-Portuguese singer and actress known for the films A Canção da Saudade and Malandros em Quarta Dimensão.

Sopho Khalvashi, also sometimes known as simply Sopho, is a Georgian musician of Laz heritage.

Anatoliy Pavlovych Bondarchuk is a retired Ukrainian hammer thrower who competed for the Soviet Union. An Olympic gold medallist, he is also regarded as one of the most accomplished hammer throw coaches of all time. He is the author of a two-volume book Transfer of Training, which was translated from Russian to English by Michael Yessis.

Roy Charman was an English sound engineer. He won an Academy Award for Best Sound and was nominated for three more in the same category.

Leonid Georgievich Melnikov was a Soviet politician and diplomat.