List of Famous people born in January

Nahuel Zárate is an Argentine footballer who plays for Gimnasia y Esgrima de Jujuy. He is left-footed, and plays as a left back.

Isabel Wilkerson is an American journalist and the author of The Warmth of Other Suns: The Epic Story of America's Great Migration and Caste: The Origins of Our Discontents. She was the first woman of African-American heritage to win the Pulitzer Prize in journalism.

Dame Cynthia Alcyion Kiro is a New Zealand public health academic and administrator, who will become the 22nd Governor-General of New Zealand in October 2021. Kiro is Māori of Ngā Puhi, Ngāti Kahu, Ngāti Hine descent and will be the first Māori woman to be governor-general.

Noriko Ogawa , born Shigemi Tanimoto , is a Japanese actress and J-pop singer born in Tachikawa, Tokyo, Japan on 20 July 1973. She graduated in sociology at Waseda University.

Michael Anthony Torres Monge, known by his stage name Myke Towers, is a Puerto Rican rapper, singer and songwriter.

Tore Hedin was a Swedish mass murderer, spree killer and police officer. The act perpetrated by Hedin, commonly known as Hurvamorden, is infamous for being the worst known act of spree killing in Swedish criminal history. The case remains infamous as well since Hedin, as a police officer, was for an extended period assigned to investigate his own first murder, as well as for employing a medium, both essentially unique for a Swedish homicide investigation.

Anna Calder-Marshall is an English stage, film and television actress.

Ferit Şahenk is the Chairman of Turkey's Doğuş Group and one of the richest people in Turkey.

Nino Sulaberidze, better known by her stage name Nina Sublatti, is a Georgian singer, songwriter, and model.

Zachary David Liew Vui Keong was a Malaysian politician who served as the Minister in the Prime Minister's Department in charge of legal affairs in the Pakatan Harapan (PH) administration under former Prime Minister Mahathir Mohamad from July 2018 to the collapse of the PH administration in February 2020 and Deputy Minister in the Prime Minister's Department also in charge of legal affairs as well as Deputy Minister of International Trade and Industry I in the Barisan Nasional (BN) administration under former Prime Ministers Abdullah Ahmad Badawi and Najib Razak from March 2008 to May 2013. He also served as the Member of Parliament (MP) for Batu Sapi from May 2018 to his death in October 2020 and for Sandakan from March 2008 to his defeat in May 2013. He served as 3rd President of the Liberal Democratic Party (LDP) from 2006 to 2014, when he was replaced by Teo Chee Kang in a rancorous internal dispute. He disputed Teo's claim of the LDP party presidency with the Registrar of Societies (RoS). In 2018, Liew led about 200 LDP members to leave the party. He then joined another Sabah-based political party, Sabah Heritage Party (WARISAN) led by former Chief Minister of Sabah Shafie Apdal and served as its Permanent Chairman.