List of Famous people born in January

Hitu Kanodia is Gujarati film actor and politician from Gujarat, India.

Santo Condorelli is an Italian competitive swimmer who previously competed for Canada.

Mikhail Viktorovich Zygar is a Russian journalist, writer and filmmaker, and the founding editor-in-chief of the only Russian independent news TV-channel, Dozhd (2010–2015). Under Zygar's leadership, Dozhd provided an alternative to Kremlin-controlled federal TV channels by focusing on news content and giving a platform to opposition voices. The channel's coverage of politically sensitive issues, like the Moscow street protests in 2011 and 2012 as well as the conflict in Ukraine, has been dramatically different from the official coverage by Russia's national television stations. Zygar is also the author of the book All the Kremlin's Men, the history of Putin's Russia, based on interviews with Russian politicians from Putin's inner circle. The book has become an outstanding best-seller in Russia.

Pierre Gage, known by his last name Gage, is a Francophone Canadian singer and songwriter.

Leonard S. Schleifer is the co-founder and chief executive of the biotechnology company Regeneron Pharmaceuticals.

Mark Bridges is an American costume designer. He frequently collaborated with Paul Thomas Anderson for each films. Bridges has been nominated four times for an Academy Award for Best Costume Design, winning two for The Artist (2011) and Phantom Thread (2017). For the latter, he won a Jet Ski and a stay in Lake Havasu City, Arizona resort, as a part of the Academy Awards telecast stunt to award the Oscar recipient who gave the shortest acceptance speech. His other awards include two BAFTA Awards for Best Costume Design for his designs for The Artist and Phantom Thread.

Lee Shin-young is a South Korean actor. He had roles in the Korean television series Crash Landing on You (2019) and How to Buy a Friend (2020).

Ita Clare Buttrose is an Australian journalist, businesswoman, television personality and author. She was the founding editor of Cleo, a high-circulation magazine aimed at women aged 20 to 40 that was frank about sexuality and, later, as the editor of the more conventional Australian Women's Weekly. She was the youngest person to be appointed editor of the Weekly, which was then, per capita, the largest-selling magazine in the world.

Ribka Sugiarto is an Indonesian badminton player specializing in doubles. Born in Karanganyar, she was selected to join the Djarum club in 2013. Sugiarto was the gold medalist at the 2018 Asian Junior Championships partnered with Febriana Dwipuji Kusuma, and won her first senior international title in 2019 Indonesia Masters, a Super 100 tournament with Siti Fadia Silva Ramadhanti.

Zheng Shanjie is a Chinese politician currently serving as governor and Deputy Party Secretary of Zhejiang and Party Secretary of Ningbo.