List of Famous people born in January

Johnny E. Jensen is a Danish-American cinematographer. He is best known for the films Rambling Rose, Grumpy Old Men, and Rosewood, and the television film Into the Badlands for which he received a Primetime Emmy nomination.

Xu Jiankang, or Hoi Kin Hong in Cantonese, is a Chinese billionaire entrepreneur with Macau citizenship, and the chairman of Powerlong, a Fujian-based real estate development company.

Graham William Phillips is a British journalist, blogger, and documentary maker, who worked for the Russian state-owned television networks Russia Today (2013–2014) and Zvezda (2014–2015). From March 2022 Phillips covered the 2022 Russian invasion of Ukraine, initially from the Chernihiv area of Ukraine, and then from Mariupol on his YouTube channel. Phillips has been described as "pro-Russia", and "pro-Kremlin", but he says his reporting is "independent."

John Joseph DeGioia is an American academic administrator and philosopher who has been the president of Georgetown University since 2001. He is the first lay president of the school and is currently its longest-serving president. Upon his appointment, he also became the first lay president of any Jesuit university in the United States. Having spent his entire career at Georgetown, where he received his undergraduate and graduate degrees, DeGioia was the dean of student affairs and held various vice presidential positions before becoming president.

John S. Harrison Jr. is an American filmmaker, musician, and composer best known for his collaborations with director George A. Romero and for writing-directing the miniseries adaptation of Dune.