List of Famous people born in January

Daryn A. Kagan is an American broadcast journalist, formerly a news anchor for CNN.

Narumi Takahashi is a Japanese retired pair skater and six-time Japanese national champion. With former partner Mervin Tran, she was the 2012 World bronze medalist, the 2010 Junior World silver medalist, and the 2010–11 Junior Grand Prix Final champion. They were the first pair to win a World medal for Japan. She has also skated with Ryo Shibata, Ryuichi Kihara and Alexandr Zaboev.

Jean-Louis Murat is the pseudonym of the French singer/songwriter Jean-Louis Bergheaud. He spent much of his childhood with his grandparents in Murat-le-Quaire from which he got his pseudonym.

Shane Buechele is an American football quarterback for the Southern Methodist University Mustangs.

Ary Fontoura is a Brazilian actor, writer, director, poet and TV-presenter. He was born in Curitiba, Paraná.

Mitsuru Manaka is a former Nippon Professional Baseball outfielder. On October 8, 2014, he was named manager of the Tokyo Yakult Swallows, replacing Junji Ogawa. Manaka had previously been managing the Swallows' farm team.

James Edward Threapleton is an English film director. Threapleton has worked as an assistant director on many films, including Hideous Kinky.

Miho Okasaki is a Japanese voice actress from Okayama Prefecture who is affiliated with I'm Enterprise. She debuted as a voice actress in 2017, playing mostly background roles in anime series, as well as playing some roles in a number of video games. In 2018, she played her first main roles as Miku Nishio in the anime series Ongaku Shōjo and Rimuru Tempest in the anime series That Time I Got Reincarnated as a Slime.

Kenya Ōsumi is a Japanese dancer, and singer. He was married to singer Rumiko Koyanagi between 1989 and 2000.

Blanca Li, originally Blanca María Gutiérrez Ortiz is a choreographer, film director, dancer and actress.