List of Famous people born in January

Otosaka Rousselot Tomo Nicholas is a professional Japanese baseball player. He plays outfielder for the Yokohama DeNA BayStars.

Gary Dajaun Trent Jr. is an American professional basketball player for the Portland Trail Blazers of the National Basketball Association (NBA). He played college basketball for the Duke Blue Devils. As a high school senior, Trent was selected as a McDonald's All-American.

Thomas Kail is an American theatre director, known for directing the Off-Broadway and Broadway productions of Lin-Manuel Miranda's musicals In the Heights and Hamilton, garnering the 2016 Tony Award for Best Direction of a Musical for the latter. Kail was awarded the Kennedy Center Honor in 2018.

Arnaud Kalimuendo-Muinga, known as Arnaud Kalimuendo, is a French professional footballer who plays as a forward for Ligue 1 club Paris Saint-Germain and the France U21 national team.

Iván Espinosa de los Monteros y de Simón is a Spanish real estate developer and politician who serves as Member of the Congress of Deputies for the Madrid constituency.

Eduardo Cortes Alvarez is an American professional baseball infielder in the Miami Marlins organization. Prior to his baseball career, he was a short track speed skater who represented the United States and medaled at the 2014 Winter Olympics.

John R. Froines is an American chemist and anti-war activist. He is noted as a member of the Chicago Seven, a group charged with involvement with the riots at the 1968 Democratic National Convention in Chicago. Froines, who holds a Ph.D. in Chemistry from Yale, was charged with interstate travel for purposes of inciting a riot and with making incendiary devices. He and Lee Weiner were the only two defendants to be acquitted by the jury on both of the counts charged against them and the contempt of court findings, which included those against Froines, by Judge Julius Hoffman were rejected in their entirety after an appeal. According to Gary Libman at The Los Angeles Times, "Froines' courtroom antics were comparatively mild," and included telling jurors that Seale had been sentenced to four years in prison for contempt while the jury was outside the courtroom.

Pierre Achille Webó Kouamo, known as Webó, is a Cameroonian football manager and former professional player who played as a striker. He is the assistant manager of Turkish club İstanbul Başakşehir.

Maria Pitillo is a former American actress. She has starred in films and on television, most notably as Audrey Timmonds in Godzilla (1998). She also had a recurring role on the TV series Providence.

Takahiro Arai is a Japanese professional baseball player for the Hiroshima Toyo Carp in Japan's Nippon Professional Baseball.