List of Famous people born in January

Kishorechandra Wangkhem is an Indian journalist based in the north eastern state of Manipur. He is associated with a cable TV network.

Roger Cunliffe, 3rd Baron Cunliffe is a retired architect and consulting project manager. He specialised in project strategy, particularly for office buildings, museums and exhibition complexes, and for city planning, both in the UK and overseas. He designed various museums and office buildings, and was the job architect of the listed Commonwealth Institute in Holland Park, London. He and his wife now have a small farm and woodlands in Suffolk.

Franco Moretti is an Italian literary historian and theorist. He graduated in Modern Literatures from the University of Rome in 1972. He has taught at the universities of Salerno (1979–1983) and Verona (1983–1990); in the US, at Columbia (1990–2000) and Stanford (2000–2016), where in 2000 he founded the Center for the Study of the Novel, and in 2010, with Matthew Jockers, the Stanford Literary Lab. Moretti has given the Gauss Seminars at Princeton, the Beckman Lectures at Berkeley, the Carpenter Lectures at the University of Chicago, and has been a lecturer and visiting professor in many countries, including, until the end of 2019, the Digital Humanities Institute at the École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne.

Hans Ronald Mueck is an Australian sculptor working in the United Kingdom.

Suehiro Maruo is a Japanese manga artist, illustrator, and painter.

Jennifer Crystal Foley is an American actress. She is best known for her roles as Christie Parker in Once and Again and Rachel Taub on House.