List of Famous people born in January

Michelle Mary Teresa Rocca is an Irish former model, television presenter, and beauty queen who, in 1980, won the Miss Ireland title. The following year, she married footballer John Devine. Two years after their divorce in 1990 she met and later married, Northern Irish singer Van Morrison.

Ayisha Issa is an actress and martial arts practitioner born in Montreal, Quebec, Canada. She has played a number of roles in both English- and French-language television series and films, such as Dark Matter, Unité 9, and Brick Mansions (2014). She is a practitioner of Brazilian jiu-jitsu who won the International Brazilian Jiu-Jitsu Federation World Championships twice, once in 2010 as a white belt, and again in 2014 as a blue belt; currently she holds the rank of brown belt and owns a dojo in Toronto named 4Points. She also did voice acting for Ubisoft's Far Cry Primal (2016) and The Dark Pictures Anthology: Man of Medan (2019), which was developed by Supermassive Games and published by Bandai Namco Entertainment.

Jeremy Francis Gilley is an English actor, filmmaker and founder of the nonprofit organisation Peace One Day.

Carmen Morales was an Argentine comic actress of film, stage and television.

Mustafa Barghouti is a Palestinian physician, activist, and politician who serves as General Secretary of the Palestinian National Initiative (PNI), also known as al Mubadara. He has been a member of the Palestinian Legislative Council since 2006 and is also a member of the Palestine Liberation Organization (PLO) Central Council. In 2007, Barghouti was Minister of Information in the Palestinian unity government.