List of Famous people born in January
Loïc Rémy
Loïc Alex Teliére Hubert Rémy is a French professional footballer who plays as a forward for Turkish Süper Lig club Çaykur Rizespor. He was described by his former manager Didier Deschamps as "a young international who is fast and powerful with huge potential".
Rakesh Sharma
Wing Commander Rakesh Sharma, AC is a former Indian Air Force pilot who flew aboard Soyuz T-11 on 3 April 1984 with the Soviet Interkosmos programme. He is the only Indian citizen to travel in space, although there have been other astronauts with an Indian background who were not Indian citizens.
Jesús Manuel Corona
Jesús Manuel Corona Ruíz is a Mexican professional footballer who plays as a winger or right-back for Portuguese club Porto and the Mexico national team.
Laura Robson
Laura Robson is a British tennis player. She debuted on the ITF Junior Circuit in 2007, and a year later won the Junior Wimbledon championships at the age of 14. As a junior, she also twice reached the final of the girls' singles tournament at the Australian Open, in 2009 and 2010. She won her first tournament on the ITF Women's Circuit in November 2008.
Dallas Keuchel
Dallas Keuchel is an American professional baseball pitcher for the Chicago White Sox of Major League Baseball (MLB). He previously played for the Houston Astros and Atlanta Braves.
Élodie Navarre
Élodie Navarre is a French actress. Navarre was discovered at 16 when she was spotted on the Paris metro by a casting director and, a year later, appeared in the television film Clara et le Juge. She studied at the Conservatoire d’art dramatique in the 10th arrondissement of Paris and, aged 20, began her professional career as an actor, appearing at the Théâtre de la Criée in Marseille. When she was 22, Navarre suffered multiple fractures after being hit by a car while on holiday in Greece, taking a year to recover. She has since appeared in theatre, film and television.
Noboru Shimizu
Noboru Shimizu is a professional Japanese baseball player. He plays pitcher for the Tokyo Yakult Swallows.
Wally Warning
Ewald "Wally" Warning is a roots, reggae, ragga, gospel and Latin singer living in Munich, Germany. He is the son of Surinamese parents. At the age of 17 he moved from Aruba to the Netherlands, where he had a hit single with "The World Needs Love" in the early 1980s and around 1990 to Germany. He put his singing career on hold while he played bass guitar in touring bands with Sam & Dave and Lightnin' Hopkins, but restarted his solo career in the 2000s. He reached a broad audience when he produced and sang the radio summer hit "No Monkey". The song reached the top thirty in both Austria and Germany.
George Tokoro
Takayuki Haga , better known by the stage name George Tokoro , is a Japanese comedian, TV personality, singer-songwriter, and essayist. Born in Tokorozawa, Saitama, he attended Takushoku University's Commercial Science class.
Juanfran Torres
Juan Francisco Torres Belén, known as Juanfran, is a Spanish professional footballer who plays as a right-back for Brazilian club São Paulo FC.