List of Famous people born in January

Franco De Vita is a Venezuelan Latin Grammy award-winning singer-songwriter. His first album as a solo artist garnered three Spanish-language hits in Venezuela. He signed with the CBS Records label in 1989, and in 1990, his album Extranjero had a song that reached No. 1 on the United States Latin charts and won an MTV Video Music Award. His 2004 album Stop reached the Top 10 throughout Latin America and on the United States Latin charts. In the United States alone, he has scored more than two dozen hits on the Billboard charts.

Alain Dorval is a French voice actor born in Algiers. He is best known as the official dub-over artist of Sylvester Stallone, Nick Nolte, and the Disney character Pete. His voice can also be heard on the radio stations Skyrock and ADO.

Zakaria Bakkali is a Belgian professional footballer who plays for Belgian club Beerschot on loan from R.S.C. Anderlecht and the Belgium national football team as a winger.

Li Qinfeng, known by her pen name Li Kotomi (りことみ), is a Taiwanese-born fiction writer, translator and essayist, who writes in Mandarin and Japanese. Her Japanese novel Hitorimai received the 60th Gunzo New Writers' Award for Excellence in 2017. In 2021, her latest novel won the 165th Akutagawa Prize.

Candy Chen is a dancer, actress, host, singer, rapper and a model. She is featured on the Taiwanese variety shows: Blackie's Teenage Club and Blackie Lollipop. Candy was a member of the Taiwanese girl group Hey Girl from 2010 to 2011, and a member of Twinko from 2013 to 2016. She is 1/8th Dutch. She changed her name to Chen Yi-Ling in July 2012 to follow her mother's maiden name. Her English name becomes Nina Chen. In November 2013, she changed her name to Candy Chen and Chen Si Ya.

Nino Fernandez is an Indonesian actor.

Óscar Omar Treviño Morales is a convicted Mexican drug lord and former leader of Los Zetas, a criminal organization. He was one of Mexico's most-wanted drug lords. His brother is Miguel Treviño Morales, a former leader of the group. The authorities believe he was the successor of his brother, who was arrested on July 15, 2013.

Minami Tanaka is a Japanese voice actress.

Carlos Manuel Joaquín González is a Mexican politician, the governor of the state of Quintana Roo. From 2009 to 2012 he served as Deputy of the LXI Legislature of the Mexican Congress representing Quintana Roo.

Noboru Yamaguchi was the second kumicho, or Godfather, of the Yamaguchi-gumi yakuza gang in Japan.