List of Famous people born in January

Hiroyuki Akimoto is a Japanese judoka. After moving up from the -66 kg division to the -73 kg division, he won the gold medal in the lightweight (73 kg) division at the 2010 World Judo Championships.

Evans Timothy Fosu-Mensah is a Dutch professional footballer who plays as a defensive midfielder, centre-back or full-back for German club Bayer Leverkusen and the Netherlands national team. He formerly played for Dutch club AFC Ajax's youth team and English club Manchester United's first team.

Héctor Alfredo Moreno Herrera is a Mexican professional footballer who plays as a center-back for Qatari club Al-Gharafa and the Mexico national team.

Anjem Choudary is a British Islamist and a social and political activist convicted of inviting support for a proscribed organisation, the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant, under the Terrorism Act 2000. He was subsequently subject to sanctions by both the U.S. State Department and the U.N. Security Council freezing his assets.

Muthuvel Karunanidhi Alagiri, commonly known as M. K. Alagiri, is an Indian politician from Tamil Nadu and was a Union Cabinet Minister of Chemicals and Fertilizers from 13 June 2009 to 20 March 2013. He is the first son of the former Chief Minister of Tamil Nadu, M. Karunanidhi and his second wife Dayalu Ammal and the head of South Zone of Dravida Munnetra Kazagham.

Yūji Tanaka is a Japanese comedian. He is best known as half of the owarai duo Bakusho Mondai along with Hikari Ota. He also played Mike in the Japanese dub of the Pixar movie Monsters, Inc. and Br'er Fox in the Japanese dub of the Disney movie Song of the South. Tanaka was diagnosed with testicular cancer in 2010, but was successfully treated following surgery.

Travis Etienne Jr. is an American football running back for the Clemson Tigers.

Paul Clement is an English professional football manager and coach, who is currently leading Cercle Brugge in the Belgian First Division A. He has been assistant manager to Carlo Ancelotti several times – at Chelsea, Paris Saint-Germain, Real Madrid, and Bayern Munich. Clement has managed Derby County, Swansea City and Reading and has previously held coaching roles at Fulham, Blackburn Rovers, and the England under-21 and Republic of Ireland under-21 teams.

Milan Peschel is a German actor. He appeared in more than fifty films since 1999.

Kelli Ward is an American osteopathic physician and politician who has served as the Chair of the Arizona Republican Party since 2019. She served in the Arizona State Senate from 2012 to 2015.