List of Famous people born in January

Fausto Rossi is an Italian singer-songwriter.

Dennis McCarthy is an American composer of television and film scores. Highly prolific, his soundtrack credits include several entries in the Star Trek franchise, including underscores for The Next Generation, Deep Space Nine, Voyager, Enterprise, and the 1994 feature film Star Trek Generations. His other television credits include Dynasty, V, MacGyver, Sliders, Dawson's Creek, and Project Greenlight. He also produced the album Ol' Yellow Eyes Is Back by Brent Spiner also from Star Trek, and composed music for stage productions.

Christophe Kern is a French former road racing cyclist, who rode professionally between 2003 and 2014 for the Crédit Agricole, Cofidis and Team Europcar teams.

Jon Caramanica is an American journalist and pop music critic who writes for The New York Times. He is also known for writing about hip hop music.

Robert Frederick McDermott was an American professional basketball player in the 1930s and 1940s. He was known as an outstanding shooter and has been called "the greatest long-distance shooter in the history of the game" by contemporaries. His grandson is businessman Bill McDermott. McDermott was named to the Naismith Memorial Basketball Hall of Fame in 1988.