List of Famous people born in January

Genichiro Takahashi is a Japanese novelist.

Jacob Lynn "Jake" Pavelka is an American television personality who appeared on six reality TV programs, most notably The Bachelor.

Olga Scheps is a Russian-German pianist, who currently resides in Cologne, Germany.

Adrian Lewis is an English professional darts player currently playing in the PDC. He is a two-time PDC World Darts Champion, winning in 2011 and 2012. He is nicknamed Jackpot, as he won a jackpot gambling in Las Vegas in 2005, but he was unable to collect the money as he was 20 years old, below the US legal gambling age of 21.

Elliott Abrams is an American politician and lawyer, who has served in foreign policy positions for Presidents Ronald Reagan, George W. Bush, and Donald Trump. Abrams is considered to be a neoconservative. He is currently a senior fellow for Middle Eastern studies at the Council on Foreign Relations. On January 25, 2019, he was appointed as Special Representative for Venezuela. On September 1, 2020, he was further appointed to concurrently serve as the U.S. Special Representative for Iran.

Maggie Carey is an American director, screenwriter, producer and actress. She has directed comedy shorts for television, and she wrote and directed the 2013 film The To Do List.

Piero Martín Hincapié Reyna is an Ecuadorian professional footballer who plays as a centre-back for Argentine Primera División club Talleres and the Ecuador national team.

Rachid Nekkaz ; born 9 January 1972, is an Algerian businessman and political activist.

Michael Evan Horowitz is an American attorney and government official. He is the Inspector General of the United States Department of Justice.

Mariam Ghani is an Afghan–American visual artist, photographer, filmmaker and social activist.