List of Famous people born in January

Francisco Rithely da Silva Sousa, born in Maranhão, is a Brazilian footballer who plays as a midfielder for Atlético Goianiense.

Manuela Manja Groß is a German former competitive pair skater. With partner Uwe Kagelmann, she is a two-time Olympic bronze medalist, and she is the youngest female figure skating Olympic medalist. She turned 15 just four days before the opening of the 1972 Winter Olympics, held in Sapporo, Japan, where she won her first bronze medal in pairs skating.

Joe Hutshing is an American film editor who grew up in San Diego, California and is best known for working multiple times with film director, Oliver Stone and well as with film director Cameron Crowe. Hutshing graduated from the University of Oregon in 1980.

Ken Yamamura, born Kennosuke Yamamura , is a Japanese actor best known for playing the younger Ichirō Yashida / Silver Samurai in the 2013 film The Wolverine, and Takashi in the 2014 remake of Godzilla.

Akane Yamagishi is a Japanese female volleyball player.

Sir Richard Henry Friend FRS FREng is a British physicist who is Cavendish Professor of Physics at the University of Cambridge and Tan Chin Tuan Centennial Professor at the National University of Singapore. Friend's research concerns the physics and engineering of carbon-based semiconductors. He also serves as Chairman of the Scientific Advisory Board of the National Research Foundation (NRF) of Singapore.