List of Famous people born in January

Kemal Ademi is a Swiss professional footballer who plays as a forward for Turkish club Fatih Karagümrük on loan from Fenerbahçe.

Svenja Anette Huth is a German footballer, currently playing for VfL Wolfsburg and the Germany women's national football team.

Chelsie Giles is a British judoka.

Miguel Ángel Jiménez Rodríguez is a Spanish professional golfer. He has won 21 times on the European Tour and has been a member of two victorious Ryder Cup teams.

Renee MacRae was a Scottish woman who has been missing since 1976 and is presumed to have been murdered. MacRae's disappearance, along with that of her 3-year-old son, Andrew, is currently the United Kingdom's longest-running missing persons case, and within Scotland is as notorious as Glasgow's Bible John murders. On 11 September 2019, William (Bill) MacDowell was charged with the murder of MacRae and her son. Their bodies have never been found.

Hend Zaza is a Syrian table tennis player. She qualified to play in the 2020 Summer Olympics in 2021 in Tokyo, through the West Asia Olympic qualifying tournament held in Jordan in 2020. At the age of 12, she was the youngest person to compete in Olympic table tennis, and the fifth-youngest person to compete in the modern Olympics. She was the youngest competitor at the 2020 games, and the youngest Olympic competitor since Beatrice Huștiu, a Romanian figure-skater who competed in 1968.

Peter Barr Robb is an American lawyer who was the former general counsel of the National Labor Relations Board (NLRB). He was appointed to the position by President Donald Trump. He was fired by President Joe Biden on January 20, 2021 after he refused to resign. Both in and out of government, Robb has advanced pro-business and anti-labor causes.

Mo Hayder is a British author of crime and thriller fiction.

Paul Mason is a British commentator and radio personality. He was Culture and Digital Editor of Channel 4 News, becoming the programme's Economics Editor on 1 June 2014, a post he formerly held on BBC Two's Newsnight programme. He is the author of several books, and a visiting professor at the University of Wolverhampton.

Thomas Edward Hassan is an American educator and husband of United States Senator and former Governor of New Hampshire Maggie Hassan. He has served as the President of School Year Abroad since June 2016. Previously, he worked at Phillips Exeter Academy, where he began as the Director of College Counseling in 1989, worked as the Dean of Admissions, and was the 14th principal from 2009 until his retirement from the school in 2015. During his 20 years at Exeter, Hassan taught mathematics and junior studies, served as dorm affiliate, and advised student organizations, including Best Buddies and the Random Acts of Kindness club.