List of Famous people born in January

Gustavo Fernández is an Argentine wheelchair tennis player. Fernández formerly ranked singles world number one.

Naoko Hayashiba , who is also known by the pen name Masaru Katori , is a Japanese writer and manga author from Fukuoka. She had a successful career as professional shogi player but quit during a sex scandal with another professional player, Makoto Nakahara, in 1995. Since then, she has focused on writing and TV work. She has written two novel series, Tondemo Police and Kiss Dakeja Iya, and the manga Shion no Ō. In 2010, after a 15-year absence, she returned to shogi.

Christopher Anthony Willock is an English professional footballer who plays as a forward for Championship club Queens Park Rangers.

Izaac Stubblety-Cook is an Australian swimmer. He competed in the men's 200 metre breaststroke at the 2019 World Aquatics Championships.

Pasqual Maragall i Mira is a Spanish politician and former President of Generalitat de Catalunya. He had previously been Mayor of Barcelona, from 1982 to 1997, and helped run the city's successful Olympic bid.

Saint Alberto Hurtado, S.J., popularly known in Chile as Padre Hurtado, was a Chilean Jesuit priest, lawyer, social worker, and writer, of Basque ancestry. He founded the Hogar de Cristo foundation in 1944. He was canonized on October 23, 2005, by Pope Benedict XVI, becoming his country's second saint.

Claus Tuchscherer is an East German nordic combined skier and then Austrian ski jumper. He finished fifth in the Nordic combined event at the 1976 Winter Olympics in Innsbruck. On the last day of the event he fled with his Austrian girlfriend to Bischofshofen.

Adidja Azim Palmer, better known as Vybz Kartel, is a Jamaican reggae dancehall musician, singer, composer, record producer, entrepreneur and convicted murderer. Among his various nicknames, he is referred to as "Worl' Boss". As summarized by Rolling Stone, he "attained folk-hero status in Jamaica with provocative lyrics, and a mischievous public persona", and "few have captivated [the dancehall] audience – or offended the sensibilities of its detractors –as consistently and thoroughly as Kartel."

Stefan Reinartz is a retired German footballer who played a defensive midfielder or defender.

Lola Randl is a German film director and screenwriter.