List of Famous people born in January

Sir Thomas Minshull Stockdale, 2nd Baronet was an English barrister and landowner.

Bruce LaBruce is a Canadian artist, writer, filmmaker, photographer and underground director based in Toronto.

Louisa Young is a best-selling British novelist, songwriter, short-story writer, biographer and journalist, whose work is published in 32 languages. As of 2018, she has published six novels under her own name and five with her daughter Isabel Adomakoh Young under the nom de plume Zizou Corder. Her eleventh novel, Devotion, was published in June 2016. She is also the author of two non-fiction books, The Book of the Heart and A Great Task of Happiness. Her most recent book is a memoir, You Left Early: A True Story of Love and Alcohol, an account of her relationship with the composer Robert Lockhart, and of his alcoholism.

Naohisa Inoue is a fantasy artist influenced by both the Surrealism and Impressionism movements. Most of his paintings are set in the fantastical land of Iblard . He created reference and background art for the Studio Ghibli film Whisper of the Heart and also provided a cameo appearance as the voice of Minami. More recently, his works were given a more direct adaptation in the short film The Day I Harvested a Star which is shown exclusively at the Ghibli Museum. He directed the 2007 OVA Iblard Jikan, produced by Studio Ghibli.