List of Famous people born in January

Aroon Purie is an Indian businessman, and the founder-publisher and former editor-in-chief of India Today and former chief executive of the India Today Group. He is the managing director of Thomson Press (India) Limited and the chairman and managing director of TV Today. Aroon Purie is the recipient of the Padma Bhushan award. He was also the editor-in-chief of Reader's Digest India. In October 2017, he passed control of the India Today Group to his daughter, Kallie Purie.

Sheila is a Japanese model, entertainer, sportscaster and actress who is represented by Horipro. Her mother is Cuban and her father is Japanese.

Kenji Nakanishi is a Japanese politician and member of the House of Councillors from Kanagawa. A former executive of JP Morgan Securities Japan, he was elected to the House of Councillors in 2010 as a member of Your Party for the Kanagawa at-large district, and he later joined the Liberal Democratic Party House of Councillors parliamentary group.

Jay Goldberg is an American lawyer and author based in New York City. A magna cum laude graduate of Harvard Law School, he is best known for his representation of high-profile clients and cases, including President Donald Trump throughout his divorces and several real estate transactions. Goldberg began his career in New York working for District Attorney Frank Hogan and was appointed acting United States Attorney for the Northwestern District of Indiana, by appointment of then Attorney General Robert F. Kennedy.

Emi Kobayashi is a Japanese gravure idol. She is from Tokyo, and belongs to the show-business production Suns Entertainment. She belonged to Yellow Cab before 2004. She portrayed the hostess who became a nun named Saori in Lion-Maru G.

Rachel White is an American Indian actress and model who works in Hindi and Bengali films. She has appeared in the Bollywood film Ungli (2014); and Bengali films Har Har Byomkesh, Devi (2017) and One (2017).

Tan Sri Abdul Rashid Hussain is an entrepreneur in Malaysia. He is the founder of RHB Group. In less than a decade, he built a financial services conglomerate comprising a stockbroking firm, a commercial bank, a finance company and a merchant bank-RHB Bank. He began his financial services career in 1971 with Strauss Turnbull in Britain and returned to Malaysia in 1975 to work in Bumiputra Merchant Bankers Bhd. He then left Bumiputra Merchant Bankers in 1983 to start Rashid Hussain Securities. Under his stewardship, RHB Securities became one of the leading stockbrokers in Malaysia.

Dame Rachel Mary de Souza is a British educationalist, and former head teacher. She was the founding chief executive of the Inspiration Trust and served in that role until March 2021, when she took up the post of Children's Commissioner for England. Rachel de Souza was appointed a Dame in the 2014 New Year Honours for her services to education.

Peter Owen-Jones is an English Anglican priest, author and television presenter.

Harvey Jerai Grant is an American professional basketball player for Promitheas Patras of the Greek Basket League. He played college basketball for Clemson University.