List of Famous people born in January

Gayle Marie LaJaunie Bird Benson is an American billionaire, businesswoman and sports franchise owner.

Anatoly Eduardovich Serdyukov is a Russian politician and businessman. He was Russia's Minister of Defense from 15 February 2007 to 6 November 2012, and made several major reforms of the Russian military. He has worked as an Industrial Director for Rostec, a state corporation, since October 2015.

Reuel Abraham, born Karl Heinz Schneider, is a former Hitler Youth member and Luftwaffe pilot during World War II reported to be the first former Nazi to convert to Judaism.

Alassane Dramane Ouattara is an Ivorian politician who has been President of Ivory Coast since 2010. An economist by profession, Ouattara worked for the International Monetary Fund (IMF) and the Central Bank of West African States, and he was the Prime Minister of Côte d'Ivoire from November 1990 to December 1993, appointed to that post by President Félix Houphouët-Boigny. Ouattara became the President of the Rally of the Republicans (RDR), an Ivorian political party, in 1999.

Adrian Schoolcraft is a former New York City Police Department (NYPD) officer who secretly recorded police conversations from 2008 to 2009. He brought these tapes to NYPD investigators in October 2009 as evidence of corruption and wrongdoing within the department. He used the tapes as evidence that arrest quotas were leading to police abuses such as wrongful arrests, while the emphasis on fighting crime sometimes resulted in underreporting of crimes to keep the numbers down.

Mathew Fraser is an American professional CrossFit athlete. Fraser is the first person to win five CrossFit Games titles, winning the 2016, 2017, 2018, 2019, and 2020 CrossFit Games consecutively.

Esteban Maximiliano Andrada is an Argentine football goalkeeper who plays for Boca Juniors in the Argentine Primera División.

Jeffrey William Van Gundy is a former American basketball coach and commentator for ESPN. He has previously been the head coach of the New York Knicks and the Houston Rockets of the National Basketball Association (NBA).

Lorenzo Joseph Fertitta is an American entrepreneur, investor and philanthropist. He is chairman of Fertitta Capital, director of Red Rock Resorts Inc. and former CEO of the Ultimate Fighting Championship.

Kirtivardhan Bhagwat Jha Azad is a politician and former cricketer and who played 7 Tests and 25 ODIs for India between 1980 and 1986.