List of Famous people born in January

Philippe Douste-Blazy is a French United Nations official and former centre-right politician. Over the course of his career, he served as Under-Secretary-General of the United Nations, Special Adviser on Innovative Financing for Development in the UN and chairman of UNITAID.

Sylvia Anne Reiner is an American author, playwright, poet and singer.

John B. King Jr. is an American civil servant and former government official who is the President and CEO of The Education Trust. A member of the Democratic Party, he served as the 10th United States Secretary of Education from 2016 to 2017 under President Barack Obama.

Christoph von Marschall is a German journalist working for the daily Berlin newspaper Der Tagesspiegel. He is currently titled the diplomatic correspondent of the newspaper's editorial offices.

Maria Sergeyevna Motuznaya is a Russian blogger and activist. She came to public attention in late July, when she explained on Twitter, why she is on Russia's official list of extremists and terrorists.

Sandra Kiriasis is a German retired bobsledder who has competed from 2000 to 2014.

Laurence Debray is a French writer, daughter of Regis Debray and Elizabeth Burgos.

Élisabeth Margoni is a French actress. She appeared in more than seventy films since 1968.

Abu Salem ( AH-boo sah-LEM; born Abu Salem Abdul Qayoom Ansari, also known as Aqil Ahmed Azmi 'and Abu Samaan, is an Indian gangster and terrorist convicted to 25 years life sentence, who hails from Azamgarh district in Uttar Pradesh. Abu Salem worked in the D-Company as a driver transporting weapons and contraband. Later he rose among the ranks after he introduced a new strategy of hiring unemployed youths from his hometown Azamgarh to come to Mumbai, execute shoot-outs and return to Azamgarh the next day remaining untraced by the Mumbai police.

Manik Sarkar is an Indian politician who served as the Chief Minister of Tripura from March 1998 to March 2018. He is a Politburo Member of the Communist Party of India (Marxist). In March 2008, he was sworn in as leader of Left Front, the Tripura coalition government. In assembly elections held in 2013, he became the chief minister for the fourth consecutive time. Currently, he serves as the Leader of Opposition in Tripura Legislative Assembly.