List of Famous people born in January

Adrian Nicholas Matthews Thaws, better known by his stage name Tricky, is an English record producer, rapper and actor. Born and raised in Bristol, he began his career as an early collaborator and guest rapper/producer and also best known as founding member of the band Massive Attack alongside Robert Del Naja, Grant Marshall & Andrew Vowles. He embarked on a solo career with his debut album, Maxinquaye, in 1995. The release won Tricky popular acclaim and marked the beginning of a lengthy collaborative partnership with vocalist Martina Topley-Bird. He released four more studio albums before the end of the decade, including Pre-Millennium Tension and the pseudonymous Nearly God, both in 1996. He has gone on to release nine studio albums since 2000, most recently Fall to Pieces (2020). In 2016, he joined Massive Attack a few times on stage for the first time in two decades, while continuing his solo career.

CR Karsanbhai Khodidas Patel is an Indian billionaire businessman, industrialist and founder of the Rs. 42,500 crore Nirma group a company with major business interests in cements, detergents, soaps and cosmetics. As of 2020 Forbes has listed his net worth at US$ 3.8 billion. He has interests in education, and founded leading pharmacy college and a leading engineering college/ university.

Edward Kobina Enninful is the Editor-In-Chief of British Vogue. Ghanaian-born Enninful began his career as Fashion Director of British youth culture magazine i-D at age 18, the youngest ever to have been named an editor at a major international fashion title, and a position he held for over two decades. He subsequently held the positions of Contributing Fashion Editor at Vogue Italia and American Vogue, as well as Creative Fashion Director at W Magazine. In 2017, Enninful was appointed Editor in Chief of British Vogue, making him the only Black editor in history to head any of the 26 Vogue magazines, and where he has continued his career-long work to bring more inclusivity and representation to the industry.

Justin Orvel Schmidt is an American entomologist, co-author of Insect Defenses: Adaptive Mechanisms and Strategies of Prey and Predators, author of The Sting of the Wild, and creator of the Schmidt sting pain index. Schmidt studied honey bee nutrition, chemical communication, physiology, ecology and behavior at the Carl Hayden Bee Research Center in Tucson, Arizona, before taking lead and devoting full-time to The Southwestern Biological Institute in 2006. As research director of the Southwest Biological Institute, he studies the chemical and behavioral defenses of ants, wasps, and arachnids.

Kalben Sağdıç is a Turkish musician and singer-songwriter.

Shintarō Asanuma is a Japanese scriptwriter, director, actor, voice actor, narrator, copywriter and designer. He was affiliated with Office Osawa and currently attached under DANDELION.

Lauren Schmidt Hissrich is an American television producer and screenwriter. She is the executive producer and showrunner of the television series The Witcher.

Sir Mark Ivan Rogers is a former senior British civil servant, who was the Permanent Representative of the United Kingdom to the European Union from 4 November 2013 until his resignation on 3 January 2017.

Lee Michael Zeldin is an American attorney, member of Congress, and officer in the United States Army Reserve. A Republican, he has represented New York's 1st congressional district in the United States House of Representatives since 2015. New York's 1st district includes Central and Eastern Suffolk County, including most of Smithtown, as well as the entirety of the towns of Brookhaven, Riverhead, Southold, Southampton, East Hampton, and Shelter Island, and a small portion of Islip.

César Augusto Cielo Filho is a Brazilian competitive swimmer who specializes in sprint events. He is the most successful Brazilian swimmer in history, having obtained three Olympic medals, winning six individual World Championship gold medals and breaking two world records.