List of Famous people born in January

Mamilla Shailaja Priya, popularly known as Priya, is an Indian actress. She appears primarily Telugu feature films and television soap operas, and has also acted in Hindi and Tamil language films.

Nasir Ahmed is an Indian-American electrical engineer and computer scientist. He is Professor Emeritus of Electrical and Computer Engineering at University of New Mexico (UNM). He is best known for inventing the discrete cosine transform (DCT) in the early 1970s. The DCT is the most widely used data compression transformation, the basis for most digital media standards and commonly used in digital signal processing. He also described the discrete sine transform (DST), which is related to the DCT.

Michel Georges Jean Ghislain Preud'homme, commonly known as Michel Preud'homme, is a Belgian retired footballer and manager who played as a goalkeeper. Currently, he is vice-president and sports director at Standard Liège.

Kenzaburō Ōe is a Japanese writer and a major figure in contemporary Japanese literature. His novels, short stories and essays, strongly influenced by French and American literature and literary theory, deal with political, social and philosophical issues, including nuclear weapons, nuclear power, social non-conformism, and existentialism. Ōe was awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1994 for creating "an imagined world, where life and myth condense to form a disconcerting picture of the human predicament today".

James Samuel Rosen is an American journalist, television correspondent, and author, who worked as a Washington, D.C., correspondent for the Fox News Channel and is now employed by Sinclair Broadcast Group.

Arthur Scargill is a British trade unionist. He was President of the National Union of Mineworkers (NUM) from 1982 to 2002. Joining the NUM at the age of nineteen in 1957, he became one of its leading activists in the late 1960s. He led an unofficial strike in 1969, and played a key organising role during the strikes of 1972 and 1974, the latter of which helped in the downfall of Edward Heath's Conservative government.

Tony Maudsley is an English actor, best known for playing Kenneth Du Beke in the ITV comedy series Benidorm. He also played Martin in Eyes Down, Graham in The Job Lot and currently as George Shuttleworth in Coronation Street.

Isaquias Queiroz dos Santos is a Brazilian sprint canoeist who has competed since 2005. He is the only Brazilian athlete to ever win three medals in a single edition of the Olympic Games.

Maria Lynn Ehren, known professionally as Maria Poonlertlarp, is a Thai-Swedish beauty pageant titleholder, model, and singer, who was crowned Miss Universe Thailand 2017. She represented Thailand at the Miss Universe 2017 competition, finishing as a top five finalist. She is of Chinese, Swedish and Thai descent.

Daniel Dale is a Canadian journalist who served as the Toronto Star's Washington bureau chief from 2015 to 2019. Dale was hired in June 2019 as a CNN reporter based in Washington.