List of Famous people born in January

Christine Janice Elliott is a Canadian politician in Ontario who is serving as the 11th and current Deputy Premier of Ontario and Ontario Minister of Health since June 29, 2018.

Paweł Cibicki is a professional footballer who plays for Pogoń Szczecin. His preferred position is striker but he can also play as a winger. His parents were born in Poland. He represented Sweden U21s.

Israel Romero Ospino or popularly known as "El Pollo Isra" is a Colombian vallenato musician, composer and accordionist. Romero was along Rafael Orozco Maestre the founder of the vallenato group Binomio de Oro de América.

Urs Kryenbühl is a Swiss World Cup alpine ski racer, and specializes in the speed events of Downhill and Super G.

Ichika Osaki is a Japanese actress who is represented by Oscar Promotion. She is best known as Asuna/Ryusoul Pink in the 43rd Super Sentai series Kishiryu Sentai Ryusoulger.

Andrew Myles Cockburn is a London-born journalist and the Washington, D.C., editor of Harper's Magazine.

Sebastian Junger is an American journalist, author and filmmaker. He is noted for his book The Perfect Storm: A True Story of Men Against the Sea (1997), a creative nonfiction work which became a bestseller; and for his documentary films Restrepo (2010) and Korengal (2014), which won awards. He also wrote the book War (2010).

Muhammad Hanif Abbasi is a businessman and politician of Pakistan Muslim League (N). He had been a member of the National Assembly of Pakistan twice from 2002 to 2008 and again from 2008 to 2013. He was arrested in April 2018 in ephedrine quota case (smuggling) by anti-narcotics force and sentenced to prison for life by the court.

Steven Murray Truscott is a Canadian man who was sentenced to death in 1959 for the rape and murder of classmate Lynne Harper. Truscott had been the last person to see her alive. He was scheduled to be hanged; however, the federal cabinet reprieved him and he was sentenced to life in prison and released on parole in 1969. Five decades later, in 2007, his conviction was overturned on the basis that key forensic evidence was weaker than had been portrayed at trial.

Makoto Nagano is a commercial fisherman, captain, and musician. He is captain of his vessel F/V Konpira Maru 50 (第50金比羅丸), and was previously captain of the F/V Konpira Maru 28 (第28金比羅丸). He is regularly seen on the Japanese television show Sasuke where he was one of the "SASUKE All-Stars," a group of favored competitors who were thought to possess the greatest potential in completing the obstacle courses. He can also be seen on the lesser known precursor to Ninja Warrior, Viking: The Ultimate, where he was the only competitor to make it to the final round.