List of Famous people born in January

Walkiria Terradura is an Italian anti-fascist partisan who was awarded the Silver Medal of Military Valour.

Jaelen Strong is a former American football wide receiver. He played college football at Arizona State.

Sabu Dastagir was an Indian film actor who later gained United States citizenship. He was credited under the name Sabu and is primarily known for his work in films during the 1930s–1940s in Britain and the United States. He was inducted into the Hollywood Walk of Fame in 1960.

Thomas Chabot is a Canadian professional ice hockey defenceman and alternate captain for the Ottawa Senators of the National Hockey League (NHL). Chabot was drafted in the first round by the Senators in the 2015 NHL Entry Draft.

Cassie Marie Berman is an American musician. She was a member of the indie rock band Silver Jews, which was fronted by her husband David Berman. She contributed vocals and occasionally bass to the albums Bright Flight, Tanglewood Numbers, and Lookout Mountain, Lookout Sea. She also played bass and sang backup during live concerts. Berman appeared in the film Silver Jew, which chronicled the band's tour of the Middle East.

Rosalind G. Brewer is an American businesswoman, who is slated to become the CEO of Walgreens on March 15, 2021; at that time, she will be the only Black female CEO of a Fortune 500 company. She is currently the COO of Starbucks and the former President and CEO of Sam's Club, a division of Wal-Mart Stores Inc. USA Today referred to her as "one of corporate America's most prominent women and black female executives." She became the first woman and the first African-American to fill the role of CEO at one of Wal-Mart Stores' divisions. In 2018 she was listed as the 34th in Forbes' ranking of the most powerful women.

Viral V. Acharya is an Indian economist who was appointed as Deputy Governor of Reserve Bank of India (RBI). He also served as a member of the advisory council of the RBI Academy and was a member of the Academic Council of the National Institute of Securities Markets (NISM), Securities and Exchange Board of India (SEBI) since 2014. As of 23 January 2017, he was appointed to serve a three-year term as a Deputy Governor of the Reserve Bank of India.He resigned from the post in July 2019 with 6 months left for his completion of term.

Lewis James Grabban is an English-Jamaican professional footballer who plays as a striker for EFL Championship club Nottingham Forest.

Joash Abong'o Onyango is a Kenyan professional footballer who plays as a defender for Tanzanian Premier League side Simba S.C. and the Kenya national football team.

Issa Kuren Edwards, known professionally as Issa Pointer, is an American singer and member of the vocal group The Pointer Sisters.