List of Famous people born in January

Phellipe Haagensen Cerqueira is a Brazilian actor best known for his role of Benny in the 2002 film, City of God . He is the younger brother of model and actor Jonathan Haagensen. He is a member of the band Guerreiros de Jorge.

Olivier Assayas is a French film director, screenwriter, and film critic.

Megan Carmel Hollie Jossa is an English actress, known for portraying the role of Courtney Mitchell in BBC One soap opera EastEnders. She is the real life cousin of EastEnders actress Jacqueline Jossa, who played Lauren Branning.

Teejay Sidhu is a Canadian actress, television host and radio personality. She has appeared primarily in Punjabi films and Indian television shows.

Gang Dong-won is a South Korean actor.

Katrina Robinson is an American politician who serves in the Tennessee Senate from the 33rd district as a member of the Democratic Party. In 2020, she was indicted on 48 charges relating to the embezzlement of $600,000 from federal grants to her nursing school.

Nico Hischier is a Swiss professional ice hockey forward and an alternate captain for the New Jersey Devils of the National Hockey League (NHL). Hischier made his professional debut in his native Switzerland in 2015, spending time both in the top-tier National League A (NLA) and the second-tier National League B. He moved to North America for the 2016–17 season to play major junior hockey for the Halifax Mooseheads of the Quebec Major Junior Hockey League (QMJHL) in hopes of furthering his hockey career; in his first season in the QMJHL, he was named rookie of the year, along with the award for best rookie in the Canadian Hockey League (CHL), the governing body for major junior hockey in Canada. Internationally Hischier has represented Switzerland at several junior tournaments, including two World Junior Championships. Regarded as a strong two-way forward and a top prospect for the 2017 NHL Entry Draft, Hischier was selected first overall by the Devils, the first time a Swiss player was selected first overall, and made his NHL debut in 2017.

Samantha Schmütz Cannet is a Brazilian actress, comedian, and singer-songwriter.

Chantal Thomas is a French writer and historian. Her 2002 book, Farewell, My Queen, won the Prix Femina and was adapted into a 2012 film starring Diane Kruger and Léa Seydoux.

Yvonne Farrell is an Irish architect and academic. She is the co-founder of Grafton Architects, which won the World Building of the Year award in 2008 for their Bocconi University building in Milan. The practice won the inaugural RIBA International Prize in 2016 for their Universidad de Ingeniería y Tecnología building in Lima, Peru, and was awarded the 2020 Royal Gold Medal. In 2017 she was appointed, along with Shelley McNamara, as curator of the 16th Venice Biennale of Architecture in 2018. She won the Pritzker Architecture Prize in 2020, also with McNamara.