List of Famous people born in January

John Ruiz is an American former professional boxer who competed from 1992 to 2010, and held the WBA heavyweight title twice between 2001 and 2005. Ruiz is of Puerto Rican descent, and is the first Latino boxer to win a world heavyweight title.

Rachid Azzouzi is a Moroccan former football midfielder and current sporting director. Raised in Germany, he represented Morocco at international level.

Durmuş Yılmaz is a Turkish economist and was the Governor of the Central Bank of the Republic of Turkey between 2006 and 2011. He served as a Member of Parliament for the electoral district of Uşak since the June 2015 general election, as a politician from the Nationalist Movement Party. He currently is the vice chairman specializing in economics of the newly-founded secular centrist İyi Party.

Ahmet Şık is a Turkish investigative journalist, the author of several books, a trade unionist, and member of Parliament in Turkey. His book, The Imam's Army, investigating the controversial Gülen movement of the Islamic preacher Fethullah Gülen, led to his detention for a year in 2011–2012 and the book's being seized and banned. He was under indictment in the OdaTV case of the Ergenekon trials; his cause has been taken up by English PEN, an association of writers fighting for freedom of expression. In 2016, the prosecutor in this case requested Şık's acquittal. On 29 December 2016, Şık was taken into custody once again on charges of "propaganda of terrorist organisations", with reference to 11 tweets that he had published. The following day, an Istanbul judge ordered Ahmet's arrest. According to lawyers, Şık was denied access to legal advice, held in solitary confinement, and not given drinking water for three days.

Pau Francisco Torres is a Spanish professional footballer who plays as a centre-back for La Liga club Villarreal and the Spain national team.

Claude Lastennet is a French serial killer who was convicted of murdering five elderly women between August 1993 and January 1994.

Anatoli Alekseyevich Ivanishin is a former Russian cosmonaut. His first visit to space was to the International Space Station on board the Soyuz TMA-22 spacecraft as an Expedition 29 / Expedition 30 crew member, launching in November 2011 and returning in April 2012. Ivanishin was the Commander of the International Space Station for Expedition 49.

Megha Dhade is an Indian actress. In 2018, she participated and became the winner of the first season of Bigg Boss Marathi 1 and later participated in Bigg Boss 12 as a wild card contestant.

Wang Chi-lin is a Taiwanese badminton player who specializes in doubles. He was the gold medalists at the 2017 Summer Universiade in the mixed doubles and team events. Partnered with Chen Hung-ling, he won the bronze medal at the 2018 World Championships.

Artyom Grigorievich Sheinin is a Russian journalist. He has been alleged to serve as a government propagandist. He worked as a TV presenter and as First Deputy Director of the Directorate of Social and Journalistic Programs of JSC Channel One. From August 2016 — he hostedTime Will Tell. Since 2008, he served as manager of the show with Vladimir Pozner as host. From January 23 to July 20, 2017 he hosted talk show First Studio.