List of Famous people born in January

Tire le coyote is the stage name of Benoît Pinette, a Canadian folk-rock singer-songwriter from Quebec. He is most noted for receiving a Juno Award nomination for Francophone Album of the Year at the Juno Awards of 2019.

Ronald Reng is a German sports journalist and author. Of his books, two have been translated to English and both of them have been honored with book awards in the UK. The Keeper of Dreams, the story of the German goalkeeper Lars Leese who ended up playing for Barnsley Football Club in the Premier League, won the Sports Book of the Year Award in 2004. It was the first foreign book to win the award. Reng's biography of the late German national goalkeeper Robert Enke, A Life too Short: The Tragedy of Robert Enke was voted William Hill Sports Book of the Year in 2011. Reng was the first non-English speaking author in 23 years to win the award. In Germany, Reng won seven times, between 2001 and 2010, the award for the best sports story of the year by the Association of German Sports Writers. In 2010 he was awarded the Dietrich Oppenberg Media Award "for outstanding journalistic contributions to promote the culture of reading."

Martin Zielke is a German bank manager who served as chief executive officer and chairman of the board of managing directors of Commerzbank from 2016 until 2020.

Gang Chen is a Chinese-born American mechanical engineer and nanotechnologist. At MIT, he is the Carl Richard Soderberg Professor of Power Engineering and he was head of the Department of Mechanical Engineering from July 23, 2013 to June 30, 2018. He directed the Solid-State Solar-Thermal Energy Conversion Center, an Energy Frontier Research Center formerly funded by the US Department of Energy. Chen is a member of the US National Academy of Engineering. In January 2021, Chen was charged by the United States Department of Justice with failing to disclose alleged connections to several educational programs in China in filing a United States Department of Energy grant application, as well as omissions in his Internal Revenue Service tax filings.

Sunny Chan Kam-hung is a Hong Kong television and film actor.

Didier Hassoux is a French investigative journalist and political writer. He is the co-author of six books about French politics, and he writes for Le Canard enchaîné.

Lee Beom-soo is a South Korean actor. He is well known for his role in Singles, Giant, On Air, Surgeon Bong Dal-hee, as well as in History of a Salaryman.

Li Hongkuan is a Chinese dissident.

Yassin Mikari is a Tunisian-Swiss professional footballer.

Sumi Hwang is a South Korean soprano.