List of Famous people born in January

Carla Anderson Hills is an American lawyer and a public figure. She served as United States Secretary of Housing and Urban Development in the Gerald Ford administration, and as U.S. Trade Representative. She was the first woman to serve as Secretary of Housing and Urban Development and the third woman to serve as a cabinet officer.

Ravi Raghavendra is an Indian film actor who appears in Tamil films and television serials.

Dona Bertarelli is a Swiss businesswoman of Italian origin. She is co-president of the Bertarelli Foundation. She is also a sailor, having won the 2010 Bol d’Or Mirabaud and, with her team Spindrift Racing, the Rolex Fastnet in 2013. In the same year, she and her team also broke the record for the America Discovery Route. In 2020 she became an adviser to UNCTAD.

Marco Tronchetti Provera is an Italian businessman. Chief Executive Officer of Pirelli & C. S.p.A. since 1992 and Executive Vice Chairman since 20 October 2015 and Chairman of Marco Tronchetti Provera & C. S.p.A., a holding which he controls and which indirectly holds 50% of Camfin S.p.A.. Camfin, indirectly, holds 41% of Marco Polo Industrial Holding S.p.A., the major shareholder who controls Pirelli & C. S.p.A. Pirelli was sold to ChemChina, a state-owned Chinese company in 2015, however, Tronchetti Provera was retained.

Victor Mikhailovich Lebedev was a Russian composer. He was born in Leningrad, USSR. He was awarded the title of People's Artist of Russia in 2005.

Dorion Sagan is an American author, essayist, fiction writer, and theorist from Madison, Wisconsin. He has written and co-authored books on culture, evolution, and the history and philosophy of science, including Cosmic Apprentice, Cracking the Aging Code, and Lynn Margulis: The Life and Legacy of a Scientific Rebel. His book Into the Cool, co-authored with Eric D. Schneider, is about the relationship between non-equilibrium thermodynamics and life.