List of Famous people born in January

Erhan Afyoncu is a Turkish historian, writer, academician, television programmer and columnist. Rector of the National Defense University.

Xie Xingfang is a retired Chinese badminton player from Guangzhou, Guangdong. She is a former defending two-time world champion for women's singles, and former women's singles World No. 1.

Maja Schöne is a German actress. She is best known for portraying Hannah Kahnwald in the Netflix TV show Dark.

Cecilia Marcellina Vega is an American journalist, currently serving as chief White House correspondent for ABC News. She joined the network in 2011 as a Los Angeles-based correspondent. Prior to her White House assignment, she had rotated with Tom Llamas as anchor of the weekend editions of ABC World News Tonight. Vega joined ABC News from KGO-TV in San Francisco, where she was part of a team awarded an Emmy in 2010. Before working in broadcast journalism, she wrote for the San Francisco Chronicle.

Ann Dibble Jordan previously known as Ann Cook, is a company director and former social worker.

Alexey Borisovich Miller is a Russian business administrator. Miller is the Deputy Chairman of the Board of Directors and the Chairman of the Management Committee (CEO) of Russian energy company Gazprom, Russia's largest company and the world's biggest public energy supplier.

Hiroki Abe is a Japanese professional footballer who plays as a left winger for Spanish team Barcelona B and the Japan national team.

Shajahan Khan is a Bangladeshi politician, member of Jatiya Sangsad from Madaripur-1 constituency. He served as the minister of shipping of Bangladesh from 2009 to 2019.

Kiyoko Fukuda was the First Lady of Japan; she is the wife of Yasuo Fukuda, former Prime Minister of Japan.

Arjun Munda is an Indian politician. He is the current Minister of Tribal Affairs in the Second Modi ministry. He was also Chief Minister of Indian state of Jharkhand. He has also served as a member of parliament having been elected to the 15th Lok Sabha from the Jamshedpur constituency in the 2009 parliamentary elections. BJP's central leadership also appointed him a National General Secretary of the party recognising his strong credentials as a popular mass leader and his significant contributions in strengthening the party in his state.