List of Famous people born in January

Alfonso Arau Incháustegui is a Mexican actor and director.

Peter Tierney Murrell is the Chief Executive Officer of the Scottish National Party. He is married to Nicola Sturgeon, the party's leader and First Minister of Scotland.

Lee Haskins is a British former professional boxer who competed between 2003 and February 2020. He held the IBF bantamweight title from 2015 to 2017, and the IBF interim title in 2015. At regional level, he held the Commonwealth flyweight title in 2006; the British super-flyweight title from 2008 to 2009; the Commonwealth super-flyweight title in 2009; the British bantamweight title in 2013; and the European bantamweight title twice between 2012 and 2015.

Jena Friedman is an American stand up comedian, writer, and filmmaker. She has been a field producer at The Daily Show with Jon Stewart and has written for Late Show with David Letterman. She developed the television project Soft Focus with Jena Friedman for Adult Swim, the first installment of which premiered in February 2018.

Felipe Colombo Eguía is a Mexican-Argentine actor, singer and songwriter. He was part of the pop-rock band Erreway together with Camila Bordonaba, Benjamín Rojas and Luisana Lopilato.

Wanderson Cristaldo Farias, simply known as Wanderson, is a professional footballer who mostly plays as a winger, but can also play as an attacking midfielder, for Sport Recife. Born in Brazil, he plays for the Bulgaria national team.

André Aciman is an Italian-American writer. Born and raised in Alexandria, Egypt, he is currently distinguished professor at the Graduate Center of City University of New York, where he teaches the history of literary theory and the works of Marcel Proust. Aciman previously taught creative writing at New York University and French literature at Princeton and Bard College.

Jhoulys Jose Chacín Molina is an American-Venezuelan professional baseball pitcher for the New York Yankees organization. He previously played for the Colorado Rockies, Arizona Diamondbacks, Los Angeles Angels, San Diego Padres, Milwaukee Brewers, Boston Red Sox and Atlanta Braves. Listed at 6 feet 3 inches (1.91 m) and 215 pounds (98 kg), he throws and bats right-handed.

Bascha Mika is a German journalist and publicist. From 1998 to July 2009 she was editor-in-chief of Die Tageszeitung and has held the same post at Frankfurt Rundschau since April 2014. At Die Tageszeitung, Mika was the only female editor-in-chief of a national newspaper in Germany.

Carlo Paalam is a Filipino amateur boxer. As of April 2021, he is ranked number 12 in the men's flyweight division at the Amateur International Boxing Association rankings.