List of Famous people born in January
Yitang Zhang
Yitang "Tom" Zhang is a Chinese-born American mathematician working in the area of number theory. While working for the University of New Hampshire as a lecturer, Zhang submitted an article to the Annals of Mathematics in 2013 which established the first finite bound on the least gap between consecutive primes that is attained infinitely often. This work led to a 2014 MacArthur award and his appointment as a professor at the University of California, Santa Barbara.
Amanda Langlet
Amanda Langlet is a French actress.
Jagathy Sreekumar
Sreekumar P. K., better known by his stage name Jagathy Sreekumar or Jagathy, is a versatile Indian film actor who has starred in over 1400 Malayalam films in a career spanning almost four decades. Widely regarded as one of the greatest comedians in Malayalam cinema of all time, he is also known for his highly nuanced character roles. He is the son of acclaimed dramaturge and writer, the late Jagathy N. K. Achary.
Nisith Pramanik
Nisith Pramanik is an Indian politician and a Union Minister of State, Ministry of Home Affairs from West Bengal. He was elected to the Lok Sabha, lower house of the Parliament of India from Cooch Behar, West Bengal in the 2019 Indian general election as a member of the Bharatiya Janata Party. He was also a member of All India Trinamool Congress (AITC) before joining the BJP in March 2019.
Debbie Mucarsel-Powell
Debbie Jessika Mucarsel-Powell is an American politician and college administrator who served as a U.S. Representative for Florida's 26th congressional district from 2019 to 2021. A member of the Democratic Party, her district covered the western part of Miami-Dade County, including Homestead, as well as the Florida Keys. Mucarsel-Powell was the first Ecuadorian American and first South American-born immigrant to serve as a member of the U.S. House and the U.S. Congress.
António Ramalho Eanes
António dos Santos Ramalho Eanes, GColL GCL GColTE CavA is a Portuguese general and politician who was the 16th President of Portugal from 1976 to 1986.
Tino Kadewere
Tinotenda "Tino" Kadewere is a Zimbabwean professional footballer who plays for Ligue 1 side Lyon and the Zimbabwe national team as a striker and a winger.
Jonny Labey
Jonny Labey is a British actor, known for portraying the role of Paul Coker on the BBC soap opera EastEnders.
Bart Sibrel
Bart Sibrel is an American conspiracy theorist who has written, produced, and directed works in support of the false belief that the Apollo moon landings between 1969 and 1972 were staged by NASA under the control of the CIA. He has written, produced, and directed four independent films promoting the ideas, with the first being the 2001 film A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to the Moon. In his works, Sibrel in part films himself asking that various Apollo astronauts put their hand on the Bible and swear an oath that they walked on the moon. In the case of the Apollo 11 astronaut Buzz Aldrin, whom Sibrel arranged to meet on a false pretence, outside the Luxe Hotel in Beverly Hills, the interaction resulted in Aldrin punching Sibrel, and in significant publicity but no criminal charges.
Mickey Sumner
Brigitte Michael Sumner is an English actress best known for her roles as Sophie Levee in Frances Ha, Katia on Low Winter Sun and Bess Till in Snowpiercer.