List of Famous people born in January

Sadettin Tantan is the Turkish politician who is the founder and current leader of the Homeland Party since 2002. He was a former member of the Motherland Party (ANAP) and served as the Minister of the Interior between 1999 and 2001 under the DSP-ANAP-MHP coalition led by Bülent Ecevit.

Rafiq Nishonovich Nishonov served as the twelfth First Secretary of the Communist Party of the Uzbek SSR.

Shinya Yajima is a Japanese football player who plays for Gamba Osaka in the J1 League. He has previously played for both Urawa Red Diamonds and Fagiano Okayama. His regular playing position is midfielder.

Jan-Ole Gerster is a German film director and screenwriter.

Ryszard Jan Szurkowski was a Polish road bicycle racer, widely regarded as a legend of the sport in Poland.

Ashihei Hino was a Japanese author, who wrote about military life during World War II. He was born in Wakamatsu and in 1937 he received the prestigious Akutagawa Prize for one of his novels, Fun'nyōtan . At that moment he was a soldier for the Japanese army in China. He then got promoted to the information corps and published numerous works about the daily lives of Japanese soldiers. It is for his war novels that he became famous during the war. His book Mugi to Heitai sold over a million copies.

Soledad Gallego-Díaz is a Spanish journalist, and the editor of Spanish newspaper El País since June 2018.

Selina Jörg is a German snowboarder.

Oskar Roehler is a German film director, screenwriter and journalist. He was born in Starnberg as the son of writer Gisela Elsner and the writer Klaus Roehler. Since the mid-1980s he has been working as a screenwriter, for, among others, Niklaus Schilling, Christoph Schlingensief and Mark Schlichter. Since the early 1990s he has also been working as a film director. For his film No Place to Go he won the Deutscher Filmpreis. His 2010 film Jew Suss: Rise and Fall was nominated for the Golden Bear at the 60th Berlin International Film Festival.

Pablo Thiam is a Guinean former footballer who played as a defensive midfielder. He holds a German passport.