List of Famous people born in January

Andrei Vladimirovich Skoch is a Russian billionaire businessman, part owner of the steelmaker Lebedinsky Mining.

Daiki Hashimoto is a Japanese artistic gymnast. He is the 2020 Olympic all-around champion. In 2019, he won the bronze medal in the men's team event at the 2019 World Artistic Gymnastics Championships held in Stuttgart, Germany. On the pommel horse he finished in 9th place and on the horizontal bar he finished in 4th place.

Roy Head was an American singer, best known for his hit record "Treat Her Right".

Kathrine Virginia Switzer is an American marathon runner, author, and television commentator.

Jérôme Kerviel is a French trader who was convicted and imprisoned in the 2008 Société Générale trading loss for breach of trust, forgery and unauthorized use of the bank's computers, resulting in losses valued at €4.9 billion.

Thomas Joseph Thibodeau Jr. is an American basketball coach who is the head coach for the New York Knicks of the National Basketball Association (NBA). He served as an assistant coach for the United States men's national basketball team from 2013 to 2016, and helped Team USA win a gold medal at the 2016 Olympic Games.

Christopher John "Chris" Cassidy is a NASA astronaut and United States Navy SEAL. Chris Cassidy achieved the rank of captain in the U.S. Navy. His first spaceflight was on a Space Shuttle mission in 2009. He was the Chief of the Astronaut Office at NASA from July 2015 until June 2017.

Raphael M. Bonelli is an Austrian psychiatrist.

Hamid Cheriet, better known by his stage name Idir, was an Algerian Kabyle singer-songwriter and musician. Referred to as the "King of Amazigh music", he is regarded as one of the more significant modern day figures in Algerian and Amazigh culture, history, and struggle. Along with musicians like Ferhat Mehenni and Lounis Aït Menguellet, Idir helped popularize Raï folk music.

Dieter Hoeneß is a retired German footballer who played as a striker.