List of Famous people born in January

Adam Brand is an Australian country musician. Brand released his debut album in 1997. He has since released 14 studio albums and has won 12 Country Music Awards of Australia.

Başak Demirtaş is a Kurdish-Turkish teacher, author, and the wife of Selahattin Demirtaş, the former leader of the Peoples' Democratic Party (HDP), who she has been campaigning to get released from prison since 2016.

Masakazu Suzuki is a former Japanese football player and manager.

Ricardo Darnell Gathers is a former American football tight end. He was drafted by the Dallas Cowboys in the sixth round in the 2016 NFL Draft. He played college basketball at Baylor University and did not play college football.

Vashti Cunningham is an American track and field athlete specializing in the high jump. She is the daughter of retired National Football League (NFL) quarterback Randall Cunningham, niece of retired NFL fullback Sam Cunningham, and the younger sister of Randall Cunningham II. Her mother is Felicity de Jager Cunningham a former ballerina with the Dance Theatre of Harlem. Vashti, like her brother two years ahead of her in school, jumped for Bishop Gorman High School in Las Vegas, Nevada until March 2016 when she signed with Nike. She announced she will continue her education at a university while competing as a professional athlete.

Gerry Hutch is an Irish criminal. He was the prime suspect for two of the biggest armed robberies in Irish history. Known for leading a "disciplined, ascetic lifestyle" since leaving prison in 1985, he was christened "The Monk" by Veronica Guerin, an investigative journalist who was assassinated in 1996.

Matthew Maxwell Taylor Kennedy, better known as Max Kennedy, is an American lawyer and author. He is the ninth child of Robert F. Kennedy and Ethel Skakel Kennedy.

Éric Woerth is a French politician of The Republicans (LR).

Guido Knopp is a German journalist and author. He is well known in Germany, mainly because he has produced a great number of TV documentaries, predominantly about the "Third Reich" and National Socialism, but also about other topics, such as Stalinism.

Kateryna Igorivna Kukhar is a Ukrainian prima ballerina of the Kyiv National Opera of Ukraine. People's Artist of Ukraine.