List of Famous people born in January

İsmet Uçma was a Turkish politician and member of the Turkish Parliament. Uçma was a member of the Justice and Development Party and a MP for Istanbul. He died on 11 October 2021 due to lung cancer.

Leon Rose is an American basketball executive, attorney and sports agent. He serves as president of the New York Knicks of the National Basketball Association (NBA). As a sports agent, Rose represented a number of prominent NBA players, including Allen Iverson and LeBron James

Lourency do Nascimento Rodrigues, simply known as Lourency, is a Brazilian footballer who plays as a right winger for Gil Vicente.

Sergei Valentinovich Kolesnikov is a Soviet and Russian film and theater actor, TV presenter, Honored Artist of Russia (1994).

Craig O'Neil Grant, also known as Craig muMs Grant and muMs the Schemer, was an American poet and actor best known for his role as Arnold "Poet" Jackson on the HBO series Oz.

Hassen Chalghoumi is the imam of the municipal Drancy mosque in Seine-Saint-Denis, near Paris.

Cristian Rafael Pache is a Dominican professional baseball outfielder for the Atlanta Braves of Major League Baseball (MLB). He made his MLB debut on August 21, 2020.

Carles Aleñá Castillo is a Spanish professional footballer who plays as a central midfielder for Getafe on loan from Barcelona.

Lieutenant General Mohammed Farid Hegazy is Chief of Staff of the Egyptian Armed Forces. Previously he was Chief of Staff and then Commander of the Second Field Army (2010-2012), and then Secretary-General of the Ministry of Defence. He took up his current post on 28 October 2017.

William Bruce Davis is a Canadian actor and director, best known for his role as the Cigarette Smoking Man on The X-Files. Besides appearing in many TV programs and movies, Davis founded his own acting school, the William Davis Centre for Actors Study. In his personal life, Davis is an avid water-skier, lectures on skepticism at events such as the Committee for Skeptical Inquiry's CSICon, and advocates for action on climate change. In 2011 Davis published his memoir, Where There's Smoke ... The Musings of a Cigarette Smoking Man.