List of Famous people born in January

Daniel Tammet is an English essayist, novelist, poet, translator, and autistic savant. His memoir, Born on a Blue Day (2006), is about his early life with Asperger syndrome and savant syndrome, and was named a "Best Book for Young Adults" in 2008 by the American Library Association's Young Adult Library Services magazine. His second book, Embracing the Wide Sky, was one of France's best-selling books of 2009. His third book, Thinking in Numbers, was published in 2012 by Hodder & Stoughton in the United Kingdom and in 2013 by Little, Brown and Company in the United States and Canada.

Michael Robert McDonald is a retired American mixed martial artist. McDonald competed in the Bantamweight division of the UFC, where he challenged for the interim UFC Bantamweight Championship at 22 years of age. He also competed in the Bantamweight division of Bellator MMA before retiring following another hand injury.

Sergey Spivak is a Moldovan-Ukrainian mixed martial artist who competes in the Heavyweight division of the Ultimate Fighting Championship. A professional competitor since 2014, he has also formerly competed for World Warriors Fighting Championships, Eagles Fighting Championship, N1 Pro Nomad MMA and Real Fight Promotion.

Gérson de Oliveira Nunes, generally known as Gérson, nicknamed Canhotinha de ouro, is a Brazilian former association footballer who played as a midfielder. He won numerous national trophies with the club sides of Flamengo, Botafogo, São Paulo and Fluminense. He is widely known as being "the brain" behind the Brazilian Football Team that won the 1970 FIFA World Cup in Mexico.

Monica Bedi is an Indian actress and television presenter. She debuted in Hindi films in the mid-1990s and her notable work includes Pyaar Ishq Aur Mohabbat and Jodi No.1. She is well known after participating in Bigg Boss 2 and also for playing Gumaan Kaur Vyas in Star Plus' Saraswatichandra from 2013 to 2014.

Winfried "Winnie" Schäfer is a German football manager and former player who is the head coach of Qatari club Al-Khor.

Emoni James-Wayne Bates is a high school basketball player who attends Ypsi Prep Academy in Ypsilanti, Michigan. A small forward, he stands 6 feet 8 inches (2.03 m) and weighs 205 pounds (93 kg). He is a consensus five-star recruit and the number one player in the 2022 recruiting class. Bates is committed to play college basketball for Michigan State. Analysts have called him the best high school prospect regardless of class.

Lieutenant Colonel Robert Blair "Paddy" Mayne, was a British Army soldier from Newtownards, capped for Ireland and the British Lions at rugby union, lawyer, amateur boxer and a founding member of the Special Air Service (SAS).

CGP Grey is an American-Irish educational YouTuber and podcaster whose channel features short explanatory videos on varying subjects, including politics, geography, economics, history, and culture. His channel surpassed one million subscribers in 2013, and his videos have been reviewed in publications such as Business Insider and The Washington Post. Grey created his YouTube account on 12 August 2010, and also posts videos on his second channel CGPGrey2 and gaming channel CGP Play.

Cody Rutledge Wilson is an American crypto-anarchist, free-market anarchist, and gun-rights activist. He is best known as a founder and director of Defense Distributed, a non-profit organization that develops and publishes open source gun designs, so-called "wiki weapons", suitable for 3D printing and digital manufacture. He is a co-founder of the Dark Wallet bitcoin storage technology, and currently serving a felony probation sentence. Defense Distributed gained international notoriety in 2013 when it published plans online for the Liberator, a functioning pistol that could be reproduced with a 3D printer.