List of Famous people born in January

Pandit Shivkumar Sharma is an Indian music composer and Santoor player from the state of Jammu and Kashmir. The Santoor is a folk instrument.

Luiz Carlos Nascimento Júnior or simply Luizão, is an association footballer. He plays as a defender, either as a centre back for Portuguesa.

Ferhat Encü is a former Kurdish member of the Turkish Parliament in the Sirnak Province of Turkey. Encü is well known for a speech that he gave on the floor of the Parliament in Ankara. In his speech, Encü criticized the Turkish Government for their violence and mistreatment of the Kurdish people. After delivering the speech, Encü was arrested and stripped of his parliamentary immunity.

Francesco Storace is an Italian politician.

Dinç Bilgin is a Turkish businessman who built up a media empire which was seized by the Turkish government in 2002 over alleged financial irregularities. He founded a number of newspapers including Sabah (1985) and Takvim (1994), and a number of television stations, including ATV (1993). He also founded the now-defunct Ateş and Yeni Yüzyıl in 1995, selling them to Korkmaz Yiğit in 1998.

Susan Taubes was a Hungarian-American writer and intellectual.

Sidney (Sid) Ganis is an American motion picture executive and producer who has produced such films as Big Daddy, Deuce Bigalow: Male Gigolo, Mr. Deeds, The Master of Disguise and Akeelah and the Bee, Bang: The Bert Berns Story and Olympia.