List of Famous people born in January
Aya Hirayama
Aya Hirayama is a Japanese actress who has appeared in various films including Waterboys (2001). Hirayama was born in Kuroiso, Tochigi, Japan which is now part of Nasushiobara.
Renton Skinner
Daniel Renton Skinner is an English actor and comedy writer, working in stage, film and television. Skinner often performs as the character Angelos Epithemiou and is a member of the British five-man sketch troupe Dutch Elm Conservatoire. The group were nominated for the Perrier award at the Edinburgh Festival Fringe in 2005.
Pape Gueye
Pape Alassane Gueye is a French professional footballer who plays as a defensive midfielder for Ligue 1 club Olympique de Marseille.
Megan Phelps-Roper
Megan Phelps-Roper is a former member of, and spokesperson for, the Westboro Baptist Church. Her mother is Shirley Phelps-Roper, and her grandfather is the church's founder, Fred Phelps. She grew up in Topeka, Kansas, in a compound with other members of the church. She was taught the Westboro Baptist Church doctrine, and at the age of 13, she was baptized as a member of the church.
Julia Reichert
Julia Reichert is an Academy Award-winning American documentary filmmaker and radical feminist.
Helmut Jahn
Helmut Jahn is a Chicago-based German-American architect, known for designs such as the Sony Center on the Potsdamer Platz in Berlin, Germany; the Messeturm in Frankfurt, Germany; the One Liberty Place in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania ; and the Suvarnabhumi Airport, an international airport in Bangkok, Thailand. Recent projects include a residential tower in New York City, 50 West St in 2016 and the ThyssenKrupp Test Tower in Rottweil, Germany in 2017.
Sunny Garcia
Sunny Garcia is a professional surfer. He grew up in Wai'anae and, after leaving school, debuted on the 1986 Gotcha Pro at Sandy Beach, Oahu, beating the 1984 champ Tom Carroll.
Dany Saval
Dany Saval is a French former actress.
Sayaka Yoshimura
Sayaka Yoshimura is a Japanese curler from Sapporo. She is currently the skip of the Hokkaido Bank FORTIUS curling team on the World Curling Tour.
Rio Haryanto
Rio Haryanto is an Indonesian racing driver who currently competes in Blancpain GT World Challenge Asia for T2 Motorsports. He raced for Manor in Formula One for the first 12 races of the 2016 Formula One season. As of 2020, he is the first and only Indonesian driver to compete in Formula One.