List of Famous people born in January

Gilbert Jay Arenas Jr. is an American former professional basketball player. Arenas attended Grant High School in the Valley Glen district of Los Angeles, and accepted a scholarship offer to the University of Arizona late in his junior year. He entered the 2001 NBA draft and was selected in the second round by the Golden State Warriors.

Jeremiah Tower is an American celebrity chef who, along with Alice Waters and Wolfgang Puck, has been credited with pioneering the culinary style known as California cuisine. A food lover from childhood, he had no formal culinary education before beginning his career as a chef.

Robert Lazarik Hines is an American comedian and actor. He is best known for his role as Toby Jones in a series of viral spoof commercials that include "Jones' Good-Ass BBQ and Foot Massage".

Aiko Kaitou is a Japanese newscaster and tarento represented by Cent Force. She is nicknamed Ai-chan (愛ちゃん).

Murat Karayılan, also nicknamed Cemal, is one of the co-founders of the Kurdistan Workers' Party. He has been the organization PKK's acting leader since its original founder and leader, Abdullah Öcalan, was captured in 1999 by Turkish intelligence agents. On 2014, he left the PKK leader position and was assigned as the new commander-in-chief of the PKK's armed wing, the People's Defence Forces.

Alejandro Davidovich Fokina is a Spanish tennis player. He has a career-high ATP singles ranking of No. 52 achieved on 9 November 2020 and a career-high doubles ranking of No. 219 achieved on 19 October 2020.

Antônio Augusto Ribeiro Reis Júnior, commonly known as Juninho or Juninho Pernambucano, is a Brazilian former footballer, who is currently the sporting director of Olympique Lyonnais. Noted for his bending free kicks, Juninho holds the record for the highest number of goals scored through free kicks (75) and many consider him to be the greatest free kick-taker of all time.

Brian Masters is a British writer best known for his biographies of serial killers. He has also written about the British aristocracy and worked as a translator.

Michael Vincent Keane is an English professional footballer who plays as a centre-back for Premier League club Everton and the England national team.

Darya Igorevna Klishina is a Russian long jumper.