List of Famous people born in January

Matthias Berninger is a former German politician and member of The Greens from 1993 until 2007.

Tilo Schmitz is a German voice actor from Radebeul. Having a deep, sonorous, basso voice, Schmitz is the official dub-over artist of Christopher Judge, Michael Clarke Duncan, Ving Rhames, Abraham Benrubi and Ron Perlman.

Terry Murphy is a television host and correspondent, best known for her nine years (1989–1998) anchoring the tabloid show Hard Copy and, since 2003, reporting for the entertainment show Extra. Previously, she was a news anchor at WLS-TV in Chicago (1976–1980), and at KNXT/KCBS-TV (1980–1984) and KABC-TV (1984–1987), both in Los Angeles; she later returned to KCBS (1987–1989) before moving on to Hard Copy. Terry Murphy also worked for WJBK-TV (CBS) Detroit in the early 1970s. She appeared in a natural acting role as herself, on Married... with Children in the episode "Shoeway to Heaven" (1994).

Richmond Yiadom Boakye is a Ghanaian footballer who plays as a forward for Ekstraklasa club Górnik Zabrze and the Ghana national football team.

Richard George William Burrows is an Irish businessman. He is the chairman of British American Tobacco plc, the world's largest tobacco company by sales, and chief executive of Irish Distillers. In October 2016, Burrows became the chairman of Craven House Capital, an AIM-listed company that specializes in restructuring, expansion and turnaround investments in crisis and transitioning economics.

Nina Akamu is a Japanese-American artist known for her sculpture. She is presently living in Rhinebeck, New York.