List of Famous people born in January

Jacques A. Bailly serves as the Scripps National Spelling Bee's official pronouncer, a position he has held since 2003. He was the 1980 Scripps National Spelling Bee champion.

Simone Fattal is a Lebanese-American artist.

Jolanda Neff is a Swiss cyclist, who currently rides for Trek Factory Racing in cross-country and cyclo-cross events.

Maria Duval is the woman at the origin of the Maria Duval psychic scam. Claiming to have psychic powers, she gained some fame before her name became associated with a vast and sophisticated mail scam.

Alejandro Gaviria Uribe is a Colombian economist and engineer, who served as Minister of Health and Social Protection of Colombia from 2012 to 2018. He is currently Rector of the University of Los Andes (Colombia). He was Dean of the School of Economics at University of los Andes in 2006, until his appointment as Minister in 2012. Prior to his academic career, Gaviria served as Deputy Director of the National Planning Department of Colombia, as well as Deputy Director of the Foundation for the Higher Education and Development (Fedesarrollo), a private non-profit policy research centre, and as a Researcher at the Inter-American Development Bank. A published author of several books and scientific articles in peer-reviewed journals, in 2019 he was appointed Rector of University of the Andes for a four-year period.

Gözde Sinem Öztürk is a Turkish actress and presenter. She notably played the fashionably conservative role of Sukran in Turking TV series Huzur Sokağı (2012–14).

James Edwin McPherson is an American government official and retired United States Navy rear admiral. He has served as the Acting United States Under Secretary of the Army since July 23, 2019, and was sworn into the position full-time on March 25, 2020 following confirmation by the Senate. He concurrently served as the General Counsel of the Army from 2018 to 2020. He was designated as Acting United States Secretary of the Navy on April 7, 2020, following the resignation of Thomas Modly.

Pauline Parmentier is a retired French tennis player.

Yulia Olegovna Khlynina is a Russian actress.

Joey Wong Cho-Yee is a Hong Kong based Taiwanese actress and singer. Along with Maggie Cheung, Rosamund Kwan and Cherie Chung, she is widely regarded as one of the ‘Four Flowers’ of Hong Kong cinema.