List of Famous people born in January

Lin Yu-ju is a Taiwanese serial killer responsible for the Nantou Serial Murders between 2008 and 2009. As part of an insurance scam to get rid of her gambling debts, Lin poisoned her mother, mother-in-law and ex-husband in Puli. On June 14, 2013, the Supreme Court sentenced her to death, making Lin the fourth female death row prisoner in the country. She is currently detained in the Taichung Women's Prison, awaiting execution. Due to the cruelty of her crimes, which shocked the Taiwanese population, she was nicknamed The Nantou Poisoning Wife and The Puli Poisoning Wife.

Barbara Jane Horrocks is an English actress, comedian, voice artist, musician and singer, who played the roles of Bubble and Katy Grin in the BBC sitcom Absolutely Fabulous (1992–2012), and reprised the role of Bubble in Absolutely Fabulous: The Movie (2016).

Brandon Eric Guyer is an American former professional baseball outfielder. He played in Major League Baseball (MLB) for the Tampa Bay Rays and Cleveland Indians. His knack for getting hit by pitches earned him the nickname, "La Piñata."

Jeff Sharlet is an American academic, journalist, and author. Throughout his career, Sharlet's work has focused on religion.

John Angus Paul Collins is a Scottish professional football manager and former player who played as a midfielder.

George McCoy is a British writer best known for producing McCoy's British Massage Parlour Guide, a series of guidebooks to establishments and women in Britain that provide sexual services. The books do not include businesses that provide therapeutic massage services. The term massage parlour is used in the title of the books because the term massage is commonly used in Britain to euphemistically advertise sex work, soliciting prostitution being illegal in the country. McCoy has also written several other guides to sexual services in Britain and appeared in the media to discuss the country's sex industry.

Benjamin Robert Alnwick is an English professional footballer who plays as a goalkeeper.

Ferréz is a Brazilian author, rapper, cultural critic and activist from Zona Sul favela of Capão Redondo in São Paulo, Brazil. He is a leader of Literatura Marginal that started in the late 1990s and early 2000s in the outskirts of São Paulo. His writings are notable for descriptions of graphic violence and the stark reality of individuals living on the margins of society. He emphasises that his writings are addressed to the youth that live in the slums, so that they feel a sense of pride in reading literature that reflects their reality and experiences.

Rick John Santelli is an editor for the CNBC Business News network. He joined CNBC as an on-air editor on June 14, 1999, reporting primarily from the floor of the Chicago Board of Trade. He was formerly the vice president for an institutional trading and hedge fund account for futures-related products. He is also credited as being a catalyst in the early formation of the Tea Party movement via a statement he made on February 19, 2009.

Emilio Marcos Palma is an Argentine man who was the first documented person born on the continent of Antarctica.