List of Famous people born in January
Akira Yoshino
Akira Yoshino is a Japanese chemist. He is a fellow of Asahi Kasei Corporation and a professor at Meijo University in Nagoya. He created the first safe, production-viable lithium-ion battery which became used widely in cellular phones and notebook computers. Yoshino was awarded the Nobel Prize in Chemistry in 2019 alongside M. Stanley Whittingham and John B. Goodenough.
Jessy Schram
Jessica "Jessy" Schram is an American actress and model. Her most notable roles include Hannah Griffith in Veronica Mars, Rachel Seybolt in Life, Karen Nadler in Falling Skies and Cinderella/Ashley Boyd in Once Upon a Time.
Jamelia
Jamelia Niela Davis is an English singer, songwriter and television presenter. She has released three studio albums, each of which has reached the Top 40 in the UK, which collectively have spawned eight UK top-ten singles. In addition, Jamelia has won four MOBO Awards, a Q Award and has received nine BRIT Award nominations.
Mikie Sherrill
Rebecca Michelle Sherrill is an American politician, former U.S. Navy helicopter pilot, attorney, and former federal prosecutor serving as the U.S. Representative for New Jersey's 11th congressional district since 2019. The district includes a swath of suburban and exurban areas west of New York City. A member of the Democratic Party, Sherrill was elected on November 6, 2018, defeating Republican Jay Webber.
Henry de Lesquen
Henry de Lesquen is a French politician. A retired official and former radio host, De Lesquen has been the president of the Carrefour de l'Horloge, a national liberal think tank, since 1985. A blogger and YouTuber since the 2010s, he has participated in popularising the concept of "remigration" in France, as well as spreading racialist concepts built on anthropologist Carleton S. Coon's theories.
Mikhail Murashko
Mikhail Albertovich Murashko is a Russian physician and a politician, serving as the Minister of Health of the Russian Federation since 21 January 2020.
Annie Cohen-Solal
Annie Cohen-Solal, is a French historian and writer. For ever, she has been tracking down interactions between art, literature and society with an intercultural twist. After Sartre : A Life (1987) became an international success, she became French cultural counselor in the US, where she held her position from 1989 to 1992. At the crossroads of disciplinary fields, she focuses on the agents responsible for modern symbolic circulations.
Teppei Koike
Teppei Koike is Japanese actor and singer. He belongs to the production company Burning Productions and is a member of the singer-songwriter duo WaT with his partner, Eiji Wentz.
Ayşe Buğra
Ayşe Buğra is a Turkish social scientist, currently professor of Political Economy at Atatürk Institute for Modern Turkish History and the co-founder of the Social Policy Forum of Boğaziçi University in İstanbul. She is a recipient of the TWAS Prize for Social Sciences which she received in 2014.
Daniel S. Goldman
Daniel Sachs Goldman is an American attorney and politician who is the Democratic nominee for the U.S. House of Representatives from New York's 10th congressional district. He previously served as lead majority counsel in the first impeachment inquiry against Donald Trump and lead counsel to House Managers in Trump's subsequent impeachment trial. Should he take office, Goldman will be among the wealthiest members of Congress, with an estimated personal net worth of up to $253 million according to financial disclosure forms.