List of Famous people born in January

Alan Kardec de Souza Pereira Júnior, known as Alan Kardec, is a Brazilian professional football player who plays for Shenzhen as a striker.

Nils Mönkemeyer is a German violist and academic teacher. He has recorded several CDs, of viola literature and arrangements for the viola, making it a respected solo instrument. He has been awarded several international prizes.

Markus Deibler is a German swimmer who competed at the 2008 and 2012 Olympics. In 2008 he finished in 40th place in the 200 m individual medley. In 2012 he was sixth in the 4 × 100 m freestyle and 4 × 100 m medley relays and eighth in the 200 m medley. He won three gold and two silver medals at the short-course European championships in 2010 and 2011.

Yannick Cahuzac is a French professional footballer who plays as a midfielder and captains French Ligue 1 club RC Lens.

Başak Parlak is a Turkish actress and model.

Zakia Khattabi is a Belgian-Moroccan politician who is currently the co-president of the Ecolo party.

İbrahim Adnan Saraçoğlu is a Turkish chemistry professor, biochemist, microbiologist and researcher.

Goukouni Oueddei is a Chadian politician who served as President of Chad from 1979 to 1982.

Giulia Enders is a German writer and scientist whose first book Gut: The Inside Story of Our Body's Most Underrated Organ, has sold more than two million copies in Germany and that was published in English, French, Italian, Spanish, Arabic and other translations in 2015.

Dmytro Oleksandrovych Korchynsky is a Ukrainian writer, poet, public figure and leader of Bratstvo ("Brotherhood"), a Ukrainian Orthodox rooted religious and political organization in Ukraine. Korchynsky is the former leader of the ultra-nationalist UNA-UNSO party.