List of Famous people born in January

Felix Drahotta is a German former representative rower. He is an three-time Olympian, an Olympic silver medallist and rowed in the German men's eight at consecutive World Rowing Championships from 2013 and 2015.

Prince Ned Nwoko is a Nigerian law graduate, politician and humanitarian. He was a member of the House of Representatives (Nigeria) between 1999 and 2003 representing Aniocha North-South and Oshimili North-South. He took his Malaria Awareness campaign to South Pole, Antarctica. making him the first black African to visit the South Pole, Antarctica.

Terry Bertland Whitfield is an American former Major League Baseball player. As an outfielder, Whitfield was known more for his batting than his defense, finishing with a career .281 batting average in 1,913 at bats in the major leagues.

Caitlin Cole McGee is an American actress. She is best known for her role as attorney Sydney Strait on the legal drama Bluff City Law. She is currently a regular on the ABC comedy Home Economics.

Marsha J. Pechman is a Senior United States District Judge of the United States District Court for the Western District of Washington.

Michael Hubert Kenyon, also known as the "Illinois Enema Bandit", is an American criminal. He pleaded guilty to a decade-long series of armed robberies of female victims, some of which involved sexual assaults in which he would give them enemas. He is also known as the "Champaign Enema Bandit", the "Ski Masked Bandit", and/or simply the "Enema Bandit".

Marc K. Nelson is an American singer and songwriter. His mother was the late American singer Phyllis Nelson, best known for the songs "I Like You" and "Move Closer". He was an original member of Boyz II Men while still attending Philadelphia's High School of Performing Arts. However, Nelson left the group to pursue a solo career before they released their first album.

Zoe Salmon is a Northern Irish television presenter who hosted the children's television programme Blue Peter from 23 December 2004 to 25 June 2008. She also appeared on Dancing on Ice in early 2009. She was the 1999 Miss Northern Ireland.

Rashad Hussain is an American attorney, diplomat, and professor, who served as Associate White House Counsel, Ambassador to Muslim countries as U.S. Special Envoy of President Barack Obama to the Organisation of Islamic Cooperation (OIC), and the U.S. Special Envoy for Strategic Counterterrorism Communications. Hussain has also served on the National Security Council and in the Department of Justice as a trial attorney and a criminal and national security prosecutor. In his role as Envoy to the OIC, the second largest intergovernmental body after the UN, Hussain traveled to numerous countries and international gatherings, served as a foreign policy advisor, and met with foreign leaders and Muslim communities around the world. His position, "a kind of ambassador at large to Muslim countries was created by President George W. Bush," and the Washington Post described Hussain as member of the President Obama's "spiritual cabinet."

Wang Junzheng is a Chinese politician, serving since 2019 as the head of the Political and Legal Affairs Commission of Xinjiang. Between 2016 and 2019 he was the Communist Party Secretary of Changchun. Prior to his position in Changchun he served in a variety of posts, as vice-governor of Hubei, the Party Secretary of Xiangyang, and the mayor and party chief of Lijiang.