List of Famous people born in January
Maybrit Illner
Maybrit Illner is a German journalist and TV presenter.
Brandon Crawford
Brandon Michael Crawford is an American professional baseball shortstop for the San Francisco Giants of Major League Baseball (MLB). Crawford played college baseball for the University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA), where he was twice named the team's Most Valuable Player (MVP). Crawford was selected in the fourth round of the 2008 MLB draft by the Giants. He made his MLB debut in 2011. He was the sixth player in MLB history to hit a grand slam in his first MLB game, and is also the first shortstop to hit a grand slam in a MLB postseason game.
Charlotte Johnson Wahl
Charlotte Maria Offlow Johnson Wahl is a British artist. She is the mother of Boris Johnson, the Prime Minister of the United Kingdom and British journalist Rachel Johnson.
Maxime Bernier
Maxime Bernier is a Canadian businessman, lawyer and politician who served as a cabinet minister of Prime Minister Stephen Harper, and as Member of Parliament (MP) for Beauce from 2006 to 2019. He is the founder and current leader of the People's Party of Canada (PPC).
Marina Foïs
Marina Sylvie Foïs is a French actress.
Christian Petracca
Christian Petracca is a professional Australian rules footballer playing for the Melbourne Football Club in the Australian Football League (AFL). A midfielder, 1.86 metres tall and weighing 97 kilograms (214 lb), Petracca has the ability to play dual-positions as a forward and a midfielder both on the inside and outside. Petracca had a standout junior basketball career where he played in the Victorian under-16 side and he was named in the Australian under-18 squad. He entered top-level football early when he played for Victoria at under-12 level and he represented them throughout his junior career, culminating in selection for Vic Metro in the 2014 AFL Under 18 Championships. In addition, he joined the TAC Cup competition as a bottom-aged player. His achievements as a junior included winning the Larke Medal, the most valuable player at state level, and selection in the All-Australian and TAC Cup Team of the Year sides. Petracca was recruited by Melbourne with the second selection in the 2014 AFL draft. He made his AFL debut in 2016 after missing the entire 2015 season with a knee injury and received an AFL Rising Star nomination during his debut season.
Douglas Lima
Douglas Lima is a Brazilian mixed martial artist who competes in the welterweight division of Bellator MMA, where he is a three-time and current Bellator Welterweight World Champion. He is also the former MFC Welterweight Champion. He is currently ranked the #3 Welterweight in the world by USA Today/MMAjunkie and the #6 Welterweight fighter in the world by MMA ranking site Fight Matrix. He holds notable victories over Rory MacDonald, Andrey Koreshkov (2x), Michael Page, Paul Daley, and Lorenz Larkin.
Tom Hopper
Thomas Edward Hopper is a British actor. He has appeared as Sir Percival in Merlin, Billy Bones in Black Sails, Dickon Tarly in Game of Thrones, and Luther Hargreeves in The Umbrella Academy.
Leonardo Ponzio
Leonardo Daniel Ponzio is an Argentine professional footballer who plays for River Plate mainly as a defensive midfielder.
Jeremy Camp
Jeremy Thomas Camp is an American contemporary Christian music singer and songwriter from Lafayette, Indiana. Camp has released eleven albums, four of them RIAA-certified as Gold, and two live albums. His original music is a mixture of ballads and up-tempo songs with rock influence. Camp has won five GMA Dove Awards, has been nominated for three American Music Awards, and was nominated for a Grammy Award for Best Pop/Contemporary Gospel Album in 2010 for his album, Speaking Louder Than Before. I Still Believe, a film based on Camp's first marriage, was released on March 13, 2020.