List of Famous people born in January

Stephen Norrington is an English filmmaker and special effects artist known for his work in the horror and action genres. Beginning his career as a sculptor and makeup artist, he worked under Dick Smith, Rick Baker, and Stan Winston on a number of well-known, effects-driven films of the 1980s and 90s. His directorial credits include the cult sci-fi horror film Death Machine and the comic book adaptations Blade and The League of Extraordinary Gentlemen. He portrayed Michael Morbius in the alternate ending to Blade.

Peter McDonald is an Irish stage and screen actor and director. He was nominated for an Academy Award for Best Live Action Short Film for his short film Pentecost.

Enrique Martínez Heredia is a Spanish former road bicycle racer. He won the young rider classification in the 1976 Tour de France. As an amateur he won the Tour de l'Avenir. He also won the Volta a Catalunya in 1976 and the Spanish National Road Race Championship in 1978.

Giovanni Stroppa is an Italian football coach and former midfielder, currently in charge as the head coach of Crotone.

Christopher Ravenscroft is an English actor, best known for his recurring role as DI Mike Burden in The Ruth Rendell Mysteries, the ITV adaptation of Ruth Rendell's Inspector Wexford mysteries.

Michel Debost, is a French flutist.

Panas Petrovych Lyubchenko was a Ukrainian and Soviet politician, who served as the Chairman of the Council of People's Commissars of Ukrainian SSR from 1934 to 1937.

Harris Johns is a European music producer, active since the late-1970s in the heavy metal and punk scene, working for a lot of big-name bands, such as Helloween, Coroner, Tankard, Sodom, Voivod, Kreator, Exumer, Ratos de Porão, Slime, Daily Terror and many others. Most of his productions were recorded at his studio Music Lab Berlin Studio. After 10 years recording in a former guest house in the countryside near Berlin, which he called Spiderhouse, he reopened the Music Lab Berlin in 2007 and gave it up 2016. He is still producing and teaching music production skills.

Bogdan Andone is a Romanian former professional footballer and current manager of Liga I club Astra Giurgiu.