List of Famous people born in January

Yılmaz Vural is a Turkish football manager and former player. He played as a midfielder for Hacettepe and Sivasspor in the 1970s.

James Grippando is an American novelist and lawyer best known as the 2017 winner of the Harper Lee Prize for Legal Fiction.

Wang Kuan-hung is a Taiwanese swimmer who competes in the butterfly and freestyle events.

Alberto Israel Errera was a Greek-Jewish officer and a member of the anti-Nazi resistance. He was a member of the Sonderkommando in Auschwitz-Birkenau from May to August 1944.

Nabih Berri is a Lebanese politician who has been serving as Speaker of the Parliament of Lebanon since 1992. He heads the Amal Movement.

Amine Pierre Gemayel is a Lebanese Maronite politician who served as President of Lebanon from 1982 to 1988.

Gavin Earl Edwards is a US-born Japanese professional basketball player for Chiba Jets Funabashi in Japan.

Yang Yao-hsun is a Taiwanese professional baseball pitcher / Outfielder in the Rakuten Monkeys of Chinese Professional Baseball League(CPBL). He has played in Nippon Professional Baseball pitcher for the Fukuoka SoftBank Hawks.

Yōko Akino is a Japanese actress.

Richard Spielman is an American football executive who is the general manager of the Minnesota Vikings of the National Football League (NFL). He was promoted to general manager in 2012 after spending 2006–2011 as the team's vice president of player personnel. He formerly worked for ESPN on NFL Live.