List of Famous people born in January

Emilie Goldblum is a Canadian dancer, aerialist and contortionist, and retired Olympic rhythmic gymnast.

Daisaku Ikeda is a Japanese Buddhist philosopher, educator, author, and nuclear disarmament advocate. He has served as the third president and then honorary president of the Soka Gakkai, the largest of Japan's new religious movements. Ikeda is the founding president of the Soka Gakkai International (SGI), the world's largest Buddhist lay organization, which declares approximately 12 million practitioners in 192 countries and territories, of whom more than 1.5 million reside outside of Japan as of 2012.

Paris Lees is an English journalist, presenter, and transgender rights activist. She topped The Independent on Sunday's 2013 Pink List, came second in the 2014 Rainbow List, and was awarded the Positive Role Model Award for LGBT in the 2012 National Diversity Awards. Lees is the first trans columnist at Vogue and was the first trans woman to present shows on BBC Radio 1 and Channel 4.

Ronnie Alan Fernández Sáez is a Chilean professional footballer who plays for Al-Raed as a forward.

Jan Leeming is an English TV presenter and newsreader.

Bruno Ferreira Bonfim is a Brazilian professional footballer who plays for Ukrainian club Shakhtar Donetsk as a forward. His nickname Dentinho means “little tooth” in Portuguese.

Jesse James Hollywood is an American former drug dealer who kidnapped and ordered the murder of Nicholas Markowitz in 2000. He was arrested in 2005 and is serving life without parole at Richard J. Donovan Correctional Facility in San Diego, California.

John Gibb Marshall, better known by the stage name John Sessions, was a British actor and comedian. He was known for comedy improvisation in television shows such as Whose Line Is It Anyway?, as a panellist on QI, and as a character actor in numerous films, both in the UK and Hollywood.

Luis Carlos Sarmiento Angulo is a Colombian billionaire and the wealthiest man in Colombia, with a net worth of $12.2 billion, as of 2020, that derives from the banking conglomerate Grupo Aval Acciones y Valores, SA, of which he is the majority shareholder and chairman.

Horst Mahler is a German former lawyer and political activist. He once was an extreme-left militant and a founding member of the Red Army Faction and later became a Maoist before switching to neo-Nazism. Between 2000 and 2003, he was a member of the far-right National Democratic Party of Germany. Since 2003, he has repeatedly been convicted of Volksverhetzung and Holocaust denial and served much of a twelve-year prison sentence.