List of Famous people born in January

Ran Itō is a Japanese actress and previous member of the 1970s idol group Candies. As the leading member of Candies, Itō was in charge of the solo of most of the trio's hit songs. Her real name is Ran Mizutani née Itō.

Robert "Bob" McCarron is an Australian medic and special effects prosthetic makeup artist who has worked on many international movies and television shows. He is most recognisable from his on-screen appearances as "Medic Bob", in the UK series of I'm a Celebrity Get Me Out of Here! and as "Dr. Bob", in the German version, Ich bin ein Star – Holt mich hier raus!.

Jacqueline Wong Sum-wing is an American-born Hong Kong Canadian actress and television host managed by Television Broadcasts Limited (TVB). She won the Miss Hong Kong 2012 first runner-up title and placed in the top 12 talents at Miss World 2013.

Harold L. Hering is a former officer of the United States Air Force, who was discharged in 1975 for requesting basic information about checks and balances to prevent an unauthorized order to launch nuclear missiles. Major Hering was subsequently presented the 2017 Courage of Conscience Award at the Peace Abbey, Boston, Massachusetts.

Jiang Wen is a Chinese film actor, screenwriter, and director. As a director, he is sometimes grouped with the "Sixth Generation" that emerged in the 1990s. Jiang is also well known internationally as an actor, having starred with Gong Li in Zhang Yimou's debut film Red Sorghum (1986), and more recently as Baze Malbus in the Star Wars film Rogue One (2016). He is the older brother of fellow actor Jiang Wu.

Joel Fry is a British actor. He appears in a number of television series in the United Kingdom, particularly sitcoms such as White Van Man, Trollied and Plebs. He portrayed Hizdahr zo Loraq in the TV series Game of Thrones, Karl Marx in the sitcoms Twenty Twelve and W1A, and Rocky in the 2019 romantic comedy film Yesterday.

Turid Knaak is a German footballer who plays as an attacking midfielder or a striker for Spanish Primera División club Atlético Madrid and the Germany women's national team.

Drew Pearson is an American former professional football player, who was a wide receiver in the National Football League (NFL) for the Dallas Cowboys. He played college football for the Tulsa Golden Hurricane. He was elected for induction into the Pro Football Hall of Fame in 2021.

Kevin Paffrath, is an American YouTuber, financial analyst, landlord and real estate broker. Paffrath's videos mostly relate to real estate and finance. In 2019, he was described by Curbed as a "landlord influencer". Paffrath was a Democratic candidate to replace Gavin Newsom in the 2021 California gubernatorial recall election, but the recall was not successful.

Indrani Mukherjee is an Indian actress who worked in Hindi films during the 1960s and 1970s and starred in over 70 films. After playing the heroine in some films, notably Usne Kaha Tha (1960) and Aakhri Khat (1966), she moved to playing character roles which were central to the film and made this her forte. Her roles in films like Dharam Veer (1977), Parvarish (1977) and Des Pardes (1978) were the pivot of the storyline, but they were not conventional heroine roles. Each of the movies were a success at the box office.