List of Famous people born in January

Elisapie Isaac is a Canadian Inuk singer-songwriter, broadcaster, documentary filmmaker, and activist. She spent her childhood in Salluit, Nunavik, and moved to Montreal in 1999 to pursue communication studies in order to become a journalist.

William Robert Peters is a Canadian professional ice hockey coach and former college player. He is currently the head coach of Avtomobilist Yekaterinburg of the Kontinental Hockey League (KHL). He has served as head coach of the Carolina Hurricanes and Calgary Flames of the National Hockey League (NHL), as well as the Canada men's national ice hockey team.

Leonid Aleksandrovich Komarov is a Finnish–Russian professional ice hockey centre for the New York Islanders of the National Hockey League (NHL). A natural centre early in his career, Komarov has made the transition to being able to play all three forward positions.

Mukhtaran Bibi is a Pakistani woman from the village of Meerwala, in the rural tehsil (county) of Jatoi of the Muzaffargarh District of Pakistan. In June 2002, Mukhtār Mā'ī was the survivor of a gang rape as a form of honour revenge, on the orders of a tribal council of the local Mastoi Baloch clan that was richer and more powerful than her Tatla clan in that region.

Hong Jong-hyun is a South Korean actor and model.

Emmanuel Yaw Frimpong is a Ghanaian former professional footballer who played as a midfielder, most recently for Ermis Aradippou.

Alek Isaac Manoah is an American professional baseball pitcher for the Toronto Blue Jays of Major League Baseball (MLB). He is ranked fifth on MLB's 2021 Top 30 Blue Jays prospects list.

Jas Arora is an Indian model and Bollywood actor, best known for his appearance in the music video "Gur Naalo Ishq Mitha" (1998). He comes from a Punjabi background. His movie debut was in Main Solah Baras Ki in the year 1998, directed by Dev Anand and later in movies such as Dushman, Monsoon Wedding, Chalte Chalte, Pyaar Ke Side Effects, Ek Paheli Leela and Freaky Ali.

Carole Landis was an American actress and singer. She worked as a contract player for Twentieth Century-Fox in the 1940s. Her breakout role was as the female lead in the 1940 film One Million B.C. from United Artists. Landis was known as "The Ping Girl" and "The Chest" because of her curvy figure.

Keiko Aoki is a Japanese retired professional wrestler and professional golfer better known as Bull Nakano . She began competing in All Japan Women's Pro-Wrestling (AJW) as a teenager under the ring name Bull Nakano. As a wrestler she was a villain, who often teamed with her mentor Dump Matsumoto. In Japan, she held several of AJW's singles and tag team championships. After being phased out by the company in the early 1990s, she traveled to North America, where she first competed in Mexico's Consejo Mundial de Lucha Libre (CMLL), becoming its first World Women's Champion. In 1994, she made her way to the World Wrestling Federation (WWF), where she had feuded with Alundra Blayze over the WWF Women's Championship. After holding the title once, she also competed in World Championship Wrestling (WCW). In 1998, Nakano began competing as a professional golfer, and in 2006, she joined a tour with the Ladies Professional Golf Association (LPGA).