List of Famous people born in January

Rasim Öztekin is a Turkish actor. He appeared in more than forty films since 1985.

Danny Edward Lloyd is an American former teacher and child actor best known for his role as Danny Torrance in the horror film The Shining (1980), an adaptation of Stephen King's 1977 novel of the same name.

Chandro Tomar, nicknamed Shooter Dadi, is an octogenarian sharp shooter from the village of Johri in the Bagpat district in the Indian state of Uttar Pradesh.

Lucia Evans is an Irish-Zimbabwean singer and winner of the 2006 season of the talent show You're a Star.

Gedson Carvalho Fernandes is a Portuguese professional footballer who plays as a midfielder for Premier League club Tottenham Hotspur, on loan from Benfica, and the Portugal national team.

Laura Berlin is a German actress and model.

Tanya Hope is an Indian film actress from Bangalore, who appears in South Indian films. Hope started modeling and became Miss India Kolkata 2015. She was a finalist of Femina Miss India 2015. In the year of 2016, she debuted as Nithya in the Telugu film Appatlo Okadundevadu.

Javed Akhtar is an Indian political activist, poet, lyricist and screenwriter. He is originally from the Gwalior area. He is a recipient of the Padma Shri (1999), Padma Bhushan (2007), the Sahitya Akademi Award as well as five National Film Awards. In the early part of his career, he was a screenplay writer, creating films such as Deewar, Zanjeer and Sholay. Later, he left screenplay-writing and became a lyricist and social-political activist. He also remained a member of Rajya Sabha. In 2020, he received the Richard Dawkins Award for his contribution to secularism, free thinking, for critical thinking, holding religious dogma up to scrutiny, advancing human progress and humanist values. Javed Akhtar was chosen as a recipient for the Richard Dawkins Award for being "the bright light for reason, freethought, and atheism in a dark time".

William Michale Hayden is a former American gunsmith, television personality, U.S. Marine, gun shop owner, and convicted child molester. He is best known as the star of the 2011–2014 Discovery Channel reality series Sons of Guns. He was convicted of sex crimes in April and July 2017, receiving three life sentences, and is currently serving those sentences at the Louisiana State Penitentiary.

Ijiel César Protti is an Argentine professional footballer who plays as a forward for Tigre.