List of Famous people born in January

Alexander Ivanovich Marinesko was a Soviet naval officer and, during World War II, the captain of the submarine S-13 which sank the German military transport ship Wilhelm Gustloff. The most successful Soviet submarine commander in terms of gross register tonnage (GRT) sunk, with 42,000 GRT to his name, he was posthumously awarded the title Hero of the Soviet Union in 1990.

Laura Novoa is an Argentine actress. She appeared in more than thirty films since 1988.

Naonobu Fujii is a Japanese volleyball player, who is also a member of the Japan men's national volleyball team and of Toray Arrows.

Reiko Chiba is a Japanese actress, voice actress, gravure idol, and occasional J-Pop singer.

Áron Szilágyi is a Hungarian sabre fencer, team world champion in 2007, two-time Olympic champion in 2012 and 2016 and European champion in 2015.

David M. Sabatini is an American scientist and Professor of Biology at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. From 2002 to 2021, he was a member of the Whitehead Institute for Biomedical Research. He was also an investigator of the Howard Hughes Medical Institute from 2008 to 2021 and was elected to the National Academy of Sciences in 2016. He is known for his important contributions in the areas of cell signaling and cancer metabolism, most notably the discovery and study of mTOR, a protein kinase that is an important regulator of cell and organismal growth that is deregulated in cancer, diabetes, as well as the aging process. In August 2021, Sabatini was fired from the Whitehead Institute and Howard Hughes Medical Institute, and placed on administrative leave from MIT following an investigation related to sexual harassment during his work at the Whitehead Institute.

Paul Beatty is an American author and an associate professor of writing at Columbia University. In 2016, he won the National Book Critics Circle Award and the Man Booker Prize for his novel The Sellout. It was the first time a writer from the United States was honored with the Man Booker.

Caroline Munro is an English actress and model known for her many appearances in horror, science fiction and action films of the 1970s and 1980s.

Brent Redstone (born c. 1951) is an American lawyer, heir and entrepreneur.

Jonah Anthony Bolden is an Australian professional basketball player who last played for the Phoenix Suns of the National Basketball Association (NBA). He started his professional career with FMP in Serbia, where he was named the ABA League Top Prospect in 2017. He played a season-and-a-half with the Philadelphia 76ers before joining the Phoenix Suns.