List of Famous people born in January

Vijay Singh Deol, better known as Bobby Deol, is an Indian film actor who works in Hindi films. He is the recipient of a Filmfare Award and a Filmfare Best Actor Award nomination.

Ravi Shankar Raju Bhupatiraju, better known by the stage name Ravi Teja, is an Indian film actor who predominantly works in Telugu cinema. Known for his roles in action comedy films, Teja has appeared in over fifty films. He is one of the highest paid actors in Telugu film industry. He won the Nandi Special Jury Award in 1999 and 2002 for his performance in the films Nee Kosam (1999) and Khadgam (2002) and also won the Nandi Award for Best Actor for Neninthe in 2008. He is known for his collaborations with Puri Jagannadh which turned out to major breakthroughs in his career.

Changhsu Hamilton Hsu, original name Xu Zhangxu, courtesy names Yousen and later Zhimo, which he went by, was an early 20th-century romantic Chinese poet who strove to loosen Chinese poetry from its traditional forms and to reshape it under the influences of Western poetry and the vernacular Chinese language. He is considered one of the most important figures of modern Chinese poetry.

Mehmet Şimşek is a Turkish politician and economist of Kurdish origin who served as a Deputy Prime Minister of Turkey from 24 November 2015 until the office's abolition on 9 July 2018. He previously served as the Minister of Finance from 2009 to 2015, serving in the cabinets of Prime Ministers of Recep Tayyip Erdoğan and Ahmet Davutoğlu. As a member of the Justice and Development Party, he was elected as a Member of Parliament for Gaziantep in the 2007 general election and for Batman in the 2011 general election.

Nicola Beer is a German lawyer and politician of the Free Democratic Party (FDP) who has been serving as a Member of the European Parliament since 2019.

Terrycina Andrea "Terri" Sewell is an American lawyer and politician. She is a member of the Democratic Party. She has served as the U.S. Representative since 2011 for Alabama's 7th congressional district, which includes most of the Black Belt, as well as most of the predominantly black portions of Birmingham, Tuscaloosa, and Montgomery.

Jean Thompson Kasem is an American actress. She is the widow of radio personality and actor Casey Kasem.

William Craig Campbell is an American politician, who served as the 57th Mayor of Atlanta, Georgia from January 1994–January 2002. He was the third African-American mayor in the city's history. Accused of corruption during his time in office, he was convicted for tax evasion in 2006 and spent 16 months in Federal prison.

Sir Brendan Foster is a British former long-distance runner, athletics commentator and road race organiser, who founded the Great North Run, one of the sport's most high profile half-marathon races. As an athlete, he won the bronze medal in the 10,000 metres at the 1976 Summer Olympics, and the gold medal in the 5,000 metres at the 1974 European Championships and the 10,000 metres at the 1978 Commonwealth Games. He has provided commentary and analysis on athletics, particularly long-distance events, for BBC Sport since the end of his running career.

Zhang Jinghua is a former Chinese politician who served as Chinese Communist Party Committee Secretary of Nanjing from 2017 to 2021. Zhang also has a seat on the Jiangsu provincial Standing Committee. On November 15, 2017, Zhang met with former Israeli Ambassador to China, Matan Vilnai. On August 30, 2017, Zhang led a party and government delegation to investigate the industrial development and technological innovation of Wuxi. In December 2016, while serving as Vice-Governor of Jiangsu, Zhang visited the Nanjing University of Chinese Medicine.