List of Famous people born in January

Fiona Maazel is the author of three novels: Last Last Chance, Woke Up Lonely, and A Little More Human. In 2008 she was named a 5 under 35 honoree by the National Book Foundation. In 2017, she was awarded a Guggenheim Fellowship.

Megan M. Jendrick is an American former competition swimmer, former world record-holder, and fitness columnist. She won two gold medals at the 2000 Summer Olympics and a silver medal at the 2008 Summer Olympics. Jendrick set 27 American records and four world records in her swimming career. She is a 13-time national champion, ten-time U.S. Open champion, seven-time masters world record-holder, and fifteen-time U.S. Masters national record-holder. Jendrick is married to American author Nathan Jendrick.

William Joseph Kennedy is an American writer and journalist who won the 1984 Pulitzer Prize for his novel Ironweed.

Meriam George is an Egyptian beauty pageant titleholder, winner of Miss Supertalent. At the age of eighteen, she was the official Pantene Miss Egypt 2005 winner. She represented Egypt in Miss Universe 2005, Miss Intercontinental 2005 and Miss Earth 2006. In Miss Earth, she was among the eight finalists, in Miss Intercontinental, she was a semifinalist, and in Miss Universe, she did not place. In October 2013, she traveled to Seoul, South Korea, to represent her country as "Miss Egypt" at the Miss Supertalent of the World 2013, where she placed as 1st runner-up, She is a Coptic Christian.Egypt's best showing in the grand slam pageants since Antigone Costanda was Miss World in 1954.

Morris Swadesh was an American linguist who specialized in comparative and historical linguistics.