List of Famous people born in January

Shaun Rankin is an English-born British chef, restaurateur, and television personality. He has been awarded one Michelin star for Bohemia restaurant in 2005. Rankin currently runs Shaun Rankin at Grantley Hall in Yorkshire.

Mojo Ruiz de Luzuriaga, known professionally as Mo'Ju and previously as Mojo Juju, is an ARIA Award-nominated Australian musician, best known for their 2018 album Native Tongue and the lead single of the same title. The single won the Best Independent Single category in the 2019 AIR Awards. They play guitar and piano, write songs and sing, and have created music in a number of genres.

William Michael Griffin Jr., better known by his stage name Rakim, is an American rapper and record producer. One half of golden age hip hop duo Eric B. & Rakim, he is widely regarded as one of the most influential and most skilled MCs of all time.

Kenjiro Kawasaki is a former Nippon Professional Baseball pitcher.

Kirsten "Flipper" Flipkens is a Belgian professional tennis player. She has a career-high Women's Tennis Association (WTA) ranking of No. 13 in the world. Flipkens has won one WTA singles title, winning the international-level 2012 Tournoi de Quebec, as well as five doubles WTA titles. She also won 13 singles and two doubles titles on the ITF Women's Circuit, and one singles title at the WTA Challenger Tour.

The oil futures drunk-trading incident was an incident in which Stephen Perkins, an employee of London-based PVM Oil Futures, traded 7 million barrels of oil, worth approximately US$520 million in a two-and-half-hour period in the early morning of 30 June 2009 while drunk. These unauthorised trades caused the price of Brent Crude oil to rise by over $1.50 a barrel within a short period of time, a trend generally associated with major geopolitical events, before dropping rapidly. As a result of the trading, PVM Oil Futures suffered losses of almost $10 million and Perkins was dismissed, later being banned from trading by the Financial Services Authority (FSA).

Yuan Bingyan is a Chinese actress.

Hiroshi Senju is a Japanese Nihonga painter known for his large scale waterfall paintings.

Maurice Bavaud was a Swiss theology student who in 1938 attempted to assassinate Adolf Hitler.

Kiyoshi Nakahata is a Japanese former Nippon Professional Baseball player. He played for the Yomiuri Giants (1976–1989).