List of Famous people born in January

Katie Lane Thurston is an American television personality and bank marketing manager. She received national recognition as a contestant on season 25 of The Bachelor, and as the star of season 17 of The Bachelorette.

Malcolm Douglas McIlroy is a mathematician, engineer, and programmer. As of 2019 he is an Adjunct Professor of Computer Science at Dartmouth College. McIlroy is best known for having originally proposed Unix pipelines and developed several Unix tools, such as spell, diff, sort, join, graph, speak, and tr. He was also one of the pioneering researchers of macro processors and programming language extensibility. He participated in the design of multiple influential programming languages, particularly PL/I, SNOBOL, ALTRAN, TMG and C++.

Merle Frohms is a German footballer. She is currently playing for Eintracht Frankfurt and the Germany national team.

Bibie is a singer, famous for her 1985 hit "Tout doucement".

Jeannie Suk Gersen is a professor of law at Harvard Law School.

Andrea Louise Martin is an American-Canadian actress, singer, author and comedian, best known for her work in the television series SCTV and Great News. She has appeared in films such as Black Christmas (1974), Wag the Dog (1997), Hedwig and the Angry Inch (2001), My Big Fat Greek Wedding (2002), My Big Fat Greek Wedding 2 (2016), and Little Italy (2018). She has also lent her voice to the animated films Anastasia (1997), The Rugrats Movie (1998) and Jimmy Neutron: Boy Genius (2001).

Rakesh Maria, IPS is a former Indian Police Officer. He last served as the Director General of Home Guards. Before that he served as the Police Commissioner of Mumbai.

Ricardo "Ricky" Vela is an American songwriter and keyboardist for the band Selena y Los Dinos.

Bernardine Anne Mobolaji Evaristo, OBE, FRSL, FRSA, FEA, is a British author. Her eighth book, the novel, Girl, Woman, Other, won the Booker Prize in 2019, making her the first black woman and the first black British person to win it. In 2020 she won the British Book Awards: Fiction Book of the Year and Author of the Year, as well as the Indie Book Award for Fiction. The novel was one of Barack Obama's 19 Favourite Books of 2019 and Roxane Gay's Favourite Book of 2019. In June 2020 she became the first woman of colour and the first black British writer to get to number 1 in the UK paperback fiction charts, where she held the top spot for five weeks. The novel is currently being translated into 35 languages. Evaristo's writing also includes short fiction, drama, poetry, essays, literary criticism, and projects for stage and radio. Two of her books, The Emperor's Babe (2001) and Hello Mum (2010), have been adapted into BBC Radio 4 dramas.

Sergey Anatolyevitch Torop, known as Vissarion, is a Russian mystic and cult leader.