List of Famous people born in January

Bowie Wu Fung is a Hong Kong actor and director with family roots in Guangdong, China. A matinee idol in the 1950s and 1960s, he began his acting career in 1953, becoming an overnight success with his debut film, Men's Hearts. In his long career he has starred opposite many of Hong Kong cinema's leading ladies, and of particular note are his many collaborations with Josephine Siao in 1960s musicals. For these roles he earned the nickname the "Dance King" for his dancing skills. In the 1970s Wu Fung began working in television and continues to do so as a contract artist to Hong Kong's TVB, with occasional guest appearances in films.

Jean-Paul Enthoven is a French publisher and journalist.

Brett Patrick Dalton is an American actor and voice actor. He is best known for playing Grant Ward and Hive in ABC's series Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D., as well as Michael Munroe in the 2015 video game Until Dawn.

Miguel Ángel Caro Quintero is a Mexican convicted drug lord and former leader of the Caborca Cartel, a defunct criminal group based in Sonora.

Zhan Vensanovych Beleniuk is a Ukrainian Greco-Roman wrestler and politician, first Black member of the Ukrainian Parliament.

Vitaly Valentinovich Milonov is a Russian politician of the United Russia party. He has served as a Member of the State Duma since 2016. From 2007 to 2016 he was a Member of the Legislative Assembly of Saint Petersburg.

Kéfera Buchmann de Mattos Johnson Pereira is a Brazilian actress, singer, TV hostess, influencer, writer and YouTuber. She has already been named by Forbes as one of the most promising young women in Brazil.

Ernie Lively is an American actor and acting coach, and the father of actors Eric Lively and Blake Lively.

Reinhard Genzel is a German astrophysicist, co-director of the Max Planck Institute for Extraterrestrial Physics, a professor at LMU and an emeritus professor at the University of California, Berkeley. He was awarded the 2020 Nobel Prize in Physics "for the discovery of a supermassive compact object at the centre of our galaxy", which he shared with Andrea Ghez and Roger Penrose.

Amy Hargreaves is an American actress who has worked in film, television, video games and theater. She has a recurring role on Homeland as Maggie Mathison. In 1994, she starred in Brainscan with Edward Furlong. In 2012, she made an appearance as Dr. Karen Folson in the 2nd season episode "Leap of Faith" on the CBS show Blue Bloods. In 2017, she began portraying the role of Lainie Jensen, mother of protagonist Clay Jensen, in the Netflix series 13 Reasons Why.