List of Famous people born in January

Juan Zanelli (1906–1944) was a Chilean racecar driver. He was born in Iquique, Chile in 1906. He raced in Grand Prix motor racing and hillclimbs from 1929 to 1936. In a Bugatti he won the 1929 and 1930 Bugatti GP at Le Mans, finished 8th in Alessandria in 1929 and 2nd in 1930, 2nd at the 1929 Marne GP and 3rd at the 1930 French GP at Pau. He won the 1933 Penya Rhin Grand Prix in Barcelona, Spain in an Alfa Romeo.

Tiago Splitter Beims is a Brazilian former professional basketball player who played seven seasons in the National Basketball Association (NBA). He is currently serving as player development coach for the Brooklyn Nets. A three-time All-EuroLeague Team selection prior to his NBA career, he became the first Brazilian-born player to win an NBA championship, in 2014, as a member of the San Antonio Spurs.

Marilyn Mosby is an American politician and lawyer who serves as the State's Attorney for Baltimore since 2015. She is the youngest chief prosecutor of any major American city.

Guadalupe Rivera Saavedra, better known by the stage name Lupillo Rivera, is a Mexican-American singer-songwriter.

Afton Williamson is an American actress, best known for the lead role of Police Officer Talia Bishop in the ABC series The Rookie and as Assistant District Attorney Alison Medding in the Cinemax original series Banshee.

Michael A. Cicconetti is a retired Municipal Court judge who presided in Painesville, Lake County, Ohio, United States, dispensing a unique brand of what he calls creative justice. The judge often left the choice of penalty to the defendant, who was faced with spending time in jail or undergoing one of Cicconetti's unusual punishments. These often involved placing the defendant in a similar position to that of the defendant's victim at the time of the crime.

Muhterem Aras is a German politician of the Alliance '90/The Greens party. She has been a Member of the Landtag of Baden-Württemberg for the constituency Stuttgart I since May 2011, and Landtagspräsidentin (speaker) since May 2016.

Kwak Sin-ae is a South Korean film producer who is the CEO of the Seoul-based Barunson Entertainment & Arts Corporation, best known as a producer of the 2019 film Parasite. She and Bong Joon-ho won the Academy Award for Best Picture at the 2020 Academy Awards for Parasite, which also received the award for Best Feature Film at the Asia Pacific Screen Awards, and was nominated for Best Film at the 73rd British Academy Film Awards.

Lorena Telpuk, formerly María del Luján Telpuk or the Suitcase Girl, is a former airport police officer at Aeroparque Jorge Newbery in Buenos Aires, Argentina, who noticed a suitcase with US$800,000 as it went through an X-ray machine in August 2007, initiating a very public international election scandal, known as Maletinazo.

Chandra Davis, a.k.a. London Charles and Deelishis, is an American model, and former reality show contestant. She is best known as the winner of VH1's hit reality TV show Flavor of Love 2.