List of Famous people born in January

Tijs Michiel Verwest OON, known professionally as Tiësto, is a Dutch DJ and record producer from Breda, North Brabant. He was voted "the Greatest DJ of All Time" by Mix magazine in a 2010/2011 poll amongst fans. In 2013, he was voted by DJ Mag readers as the "best DJ of the last 20 years". He is also regarded as the "Godfather of EDM" by many sources.

Toshihiko Kuramoto is a professional Japanese baseball player. He plays infielder for the Yokohama DeNA BayStars.

Veysi Kaynak is a Turkish politician from the Justice and Development Party (AKP) who currently serves as a Deputy Prime Minister of Turkey in the government of Binali Yıldırım since 24 May 2016. He is a Member of Parliament Kahramanmaraş since the June 2015 general election, having previously served from 2007 to 2011.

Şener Özbayraklı is a Turkish footballer who plays as a right back for Galatasaray.

Ricardo Raúl Jaime is an Argentine politician who was the longtime Secretary of Transportation under Presidents Néstor Kirchner and Cristina Fernández de Kirchner. Since he resigned that position in 2009, Jaime has been charged in dozens of criminal cases with such crimes as embezzlement, irregularities in awarding subsidies, abuse of authority, misappropriation of public funds, and conspiracy. In 2013, he received a suspended sentence of six months for concealment of evidence. In 2015 Jaime received an 18-month sentence for accepting bribes from the former train operator Trenes de Buenos Aires during his time as Secretary of Transport. Later that year, he then received a further six years imprisonment for failure to prevent the 2012 Buenos Aires rail disaster.

Janine Jansen is a Dutch violinist and violist.

Mikhail Vladimirovich Svetov is a Russian politician and public figure, chairman of the civil society movement "Civil Society", political scientist, blogger, one of the main ideologists and popularizers of libertarianism in Russia, organizer major federal rallies on various political and public topics. Svetov hosts his own YouTube channel and an online newspaper both entitled "SVTV".

Miguel Eduardo Rodríguez Torres was the Minister of the Popular Power for Interior, Justice and Peace of Venezuela from 2013, until he was replaced by Carmen Meléndez on 24 October 2014.

Shinya Yamada , better known exclusively by his stage name Shinya (真矢), is a Japanese musician, media personality and entrepreneur. He is best known as drummer of the rock band Luna Sea. Although he released one solo album in 1997, since then he has supported other bands and musicians instead.

Josef "Pepo" Puch is an Austrian Paralympic equestrian. He started in equestrian at fifteen and has incomplete paraplegia due to an accident in 2008. At the 2012 Summer Paralympics he won a gold medal and a bronze medal. At the 2016 Summer Paralympics he also won a gold medal in the individual championship test and a silver medal in the individual freestyle test grade 1b.