List of Famous people born in January

Dong Cunrui was a Chinese Communist soldier in the People's Liberation Army during the Chinese Civil War who blew himself up in order to destroy a Kuomintang bunker guarding an approach to an important bridge in Longhua County.

Óscar Christopher Vílchez Soto is a Peruvian footballer who plays as a central midfielder for Alianza Universidad and for the Peru national football team. He is also the younger brother of footballer Walter Vílchez.

Liao Kuo-tung is a Taiwanese Amis politician. Also known by the Amis name Sufin Siluko, he has represented the Lowland Aborigine Constituency in the Legislative Yuan since 2002.

Souad Mekhennet is a German journalist and author who has written or worked for The New York Times, Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung, The Washington Post, The Daily Beast and German television channel ZDF.

Toru Iwatani is a Japanese video game designer who spent much of his career working for Namco. He is best known as the creator of the arcade game Pac-Man (1980).

Yvette Kong is a Hong Kong competitive Olympic swimmer.

Qin Shupei is a Chinese supermodel and actress.

Arthur Conant Lounsbery is an American-born Japanese voice actor and narrator affiliated with 81 Produce. His major roles include Felix Louis-Claude Mont d'Or in Argonavis, Ryugel Baran in Inazuma Eleven GO: Galaxy, Twinblade Arthur in Million Arthur and Kaito Tsukigami in Star-Myu.

Viktor Mikhailovich Shustikov is a former Soviet Russian footballer. He is the father of Sergei Shustikov and the grandfather of Sergei Shustikov Jr..

Stanley Cheung King-shun is a Hong Kong actor, singer, and presenter. In 2003, Cheung debuted as a member of the short lived boy band Cheers, which won Hong Kong's Best New Artist at Shanghai's Asian Music Festival in 2003. In 2006, Cheung auditioned for TVbeople, a talent casting system hosted by TVB, and was selected to sign a two-year artiste contract with the company along with six other winners. Before acting in dramas, Cheung has hosted several entertainment programmes for TVB. Cheung is perhaps best known for his role as Ka-ming in the 2011 drama serial When Heaven Burns.