List of Famous people born in January
Carlos Wizard Martins
Carlos Wizard Martins is a Brazilian entrepreneur and founder of Grupo Multi, a company that offers franchises for English courses. Grupo Multi was bought out by Pearson in 2013.
Diana Trujillo
Diana Trujillo is a Colombian aerospace engineer at the NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory. She is Mission Lead for the Mars Curiosity rover.
Luke List
Luke List is an American professional golfer who has played on the PGA Tour.
Emil Audero
Emilio Audero Mulyadi is a professional footballer who plays as a goalkeeper for Serie A club Sampdoria. Born in Indonesia, he is a former youth international player for Italy, reaching the under-21 level. He is eligible to play for both Italy and Indonesia internationally.
Yusaf Mack
Yusaf Mack is an American former professional boxer.
Franca Viola
Franca Viola is an Italian woman who became famous in the 1960s in Italy for refusing a "rehabilitating marriage" to her rapist after being kidnapped, held hostage for more than a week, and raped numerous times. She is considered to be the first Italian woman who had been raped to publicly refuse to marry her rapist. Instead, she and her family successfully pursued prosecution of the rapist. The trial had a wide resonance in Italy, as Viola's behavior clashed with traditional social conventions in Southern Italy, whereby a woman would lose her honour if she did not marry the man to whom she had lost her virginity. Franca Viola became a symbol of the cultural progress and emancipation of women in post-war Italy.
Gökhan Gönül
Gökhan Gönül is a Turkish professional footballer who plays as a right back for Süper Lig club Fenerbahçe. He is also a senior international for Turkey.
Maria Gatland
Maria Gatland is a councillor in the London Borough of Croydon for the Conservative Party, representing the Croham ward. She is also a former Croydon Council cabinet member for education, a post she resigned after controversy due to being a former member of the Provisional Irish Republican Army.
Hanae Mori
Hanae Mori is a fashion designer in Japan. She is one of only two Japanese women to have presented her collections on the runways of Paris and New York, and the first Asian woman to be admitted as an official haute couture design house by the fédération française de la couture in France. Her fashion house, opened in Japan in 1951, grew to become a $500 million international business by the 1990s.
Belçim Bilgin
Belçim Bilgin is a Turkish actress of Kurdish origin.