List of Famous people born in January

Jann Turner is a South African film director, novelist, television director and screenwriter. Her feature film directorial debut was the 2009 film White Wedding.

Andy Hunt is a writer of books on software development. Hunt co-authored The Pragmatic Programmer, ten other books and many articles, and was one of the 17 original authors of the Agile Manifesto and founders of the Agile Alliance. He and partner Dave Thomas founded the Pragmatic Bookshelf series of books for software developers. He also plays the trumpet, flugel horn, and keyboards.

Charley Henley is a visual effects supervisor. He was nominated at the 85th Academy Awards for his work on the film Prometheus, in the category of Best Visual Effects. He shared his nomination with Martin Hill, Richard Stammers and Trevor Wood. He is also the son of the actor Drewe Henley, who was best known for his role as Red Leader in Star Wars, and actress Felicity Kendal.

Marian van de Wal is a Dutch-Andorran singer and businesswoman who was the representative of Andorra at the 2005 Eurovision Song Contest in Kyiv, Ukraine.