List of Famous people born in January

Brendan James Penny is a Canadian film and television actor who first became well known to TV audiences as A.J. Varland in the first season of Whistler that aired in Canada from 2006 to 2008. He is perhaps best known as Detective Brian Lucas in Motive, a Canadian crime drama centred on a team of Vancouver homicide detectives, also starring Kristin Lehman, Louis Ferreira and Lauren Holly, which aired from 2013 to 2016. Brendan currently stars as Kevin O'Brien in the Hallmark Channel family drama series Chesapeake Shores, which premiered on August 14, 2016. He has also been the hero of a number of Hallmark originals.

Jared Butler is an American college basketball player for the Baylor Bears of the Big 12 Conference.

Martin Shaw is an English actor. He is known for his roles in the television series The Professionals, The Chief, Judge John Deed and Inspector George Gently. He has also acted on stage and in film, and has narrated numerous audiobooks and presented various television series, including the 2006 series Martin Shaw: Aviators.

Chase Koepka is an American professional golfer. He is the younger brother of Brooks Koepka, who is also a professional golfer. His great uncle is Major League Baseball player Dick Groat.

Barry Clark Barish is an American experimental physicist and Nobel Laureate. He is a Linde Professor of Physics, emeritus at California Institute of Technology and a leading expert on gravitational waves.

Kenshiro Teraji , known professionally by his ring name Ken Shiro, is a Japanese professional boxer who has held the WBC light-flyweight title since 2017, and held the OPBF light-flyweight title in 2016.

Marcus Samuelsson is an Ethiopian Swedish chef and restaurateur. He is the head chef of Red Rooster in Harlem, New York.

Muntadhar al-Zaidi is an Iraqi broadcast journalist who served as a correspondent for Iraqi-owned, Egyptian-based Al-Baghdadia TV. As of February 2011, al-Zaidi works with a Lebanese TV channel.

Anthony Richard Pulis is a Welsh football manager and former footballer who was most recently the manager of Sheffield Wednesday.

Naomi Hosokawa is a Japanese actress and singer.