List of Famous people born in January

Dat Phan is a Vietnamese American stand-up comedian. He first rose to fame in 2003 after defeating runner-up Ralphie May to win Season 1 of Last Comic Standing.

Paulo Victor Mileo Vidotti, known as Paulo Victor Vidotti or simply Paulo Victor, is a Brazilian professional footballer who plays as a goalkeeper for Saudi Arabian club Al-Ettifaq.

Urs Meier is a retired Swiss football referee. He officiated at the 1998 and 2002 World Cups, taking charge of the semi-final between South Korea and Germany in 2002. He also refereed the 2002 UEFA Champions League Final that year. He appeared at Euro 2000 and Euro 2004, refereeing the quarter-final between England and Portugal in 2004. He retired 6 months later.

Guido Reil is a German politician who is serving as an Alternative for Germany Member of the European Parliament.

Jamie Anne Allman is an American actress. She is known for her role as Terry Marek on AMC's The Killing.

Ian Joseph Brzezinski is an American foreign policy and military affairs expert.

Chamoy Thipayaso was an employee of the Petroleum Authority of Thailand. She is known for receiving the world's longest prison sentence of lifetime imprisonment 141,078 years for her involvement in a pyramid scheme that defrauded more than 16,000 Thais and is estimated to have been worth between $200–300 million.

Dominique Bijotat is a French football manager and former professional player who played as a midfielder. He obtained eight international caps for the France national team during the 1980s.

Heino Falcke is a German professor of radio astronomy and astroparticle physics at the Radboud University Nijmegen. He was a winner of the 2011 Spinoza Prize. His main field of study is black holes, and he is the originator of the concept of the 'black hole shadow'. In 2013, a team under his lead earned a 14 million euro research grant from the European Research Council to further studies of black holes. In 2019, Falcke announced the first Event Horizon Telescope results at the EHT Press Conference in Brussels.

Erin Gray is an American model and actress whose roles include Colonel Wilma Deering in the science fiction television series Buck Rogers in the 25th Century and as Kate Summers-Stratton in the situation comedy Silver Spoons.