List of Famous people born in January

Lin Shu-fen is a member of the Democratic Progressive Party who is in the Legislative Yuan in Taiwan.

Felix Yanwar Siauw is a Chinese-Indonesian Islamic cleric (ustad), preacher, author and da'i, known for his affiliation with the Islamist group Hizbut Tahrir Indonesia (HTI), and his hard-line puritanical position on Islamic interpretations.

Tomoaki Kato , M.D., is a noted pioneer in multiple-organ transplantation, pediatric and adult liver transplantation. Kato is Surgical Director of Adult and Pediatric Liver and Intestinal Transplantation at NewYork-Presbyterian Hospital/Columbia University Medical Center and is a professor of surgery at Columbia University College of Physicians and Surgeons. Kato is also known for unique and innovative surgeries for adults and children, including a six-organ transplant; a procedure called APOLT that resuscitates a failing liver by attaching a partial donor liver, making immunosuppressant drugs unnecessary; and the first successful human partial bladder transplantation involving the transplant of two kidneys together with ureters connected to a patch of the donor bladder. In a highly publicized case, he led the first reported removal and re-implantation, or auto-transplantation, of six organs to excise a hard-to-reach abdominal tumor. Previously the director of pediatric liver and gastrointestinal transplant and professor of clinical surgery at the University of Miami School of Medicine, Kato received his medical degree from the Osaka University Medical School in Japan and received his residency training in surgery at Osaka University Hospital and Itami City Hospital in Hyogo, Japan. He completed a clinical fellowship in transplantation at the University of Miami/Jackson Memorial Hospital, in Miami, Florida, where he was subsequently appointed to the surgical faculty in 1997, and promoted to full professor in 2007. He served as a surgeon and senior leader of the liver and transplantation center at Miami's Jackson Memorial Hospital, beginning in 1997, and at University of Miami Hospital, beginning in 2004. Kato is a member of numerous professional and honorary organizations, and the author or co-author of more than 180 scientific papers in peer-reviewed journals. He's featured on NY Med.

Chantal Andere is a Mexican actress and singer, known for playing the villain, the vamp, or the bitter woman on telenovelas. She has come across as a serious actress.

Fabiola Guajardo is a Mexican actress, model, author and musician, known for having competed in Nuestra Belleza Nuevo León 2007 finishing as the first runner up and being finalist on the National pageant of Nuestra Belleza Mexico in 2007.

Ali Yahia Abdennour, born January 18, 1921, in Aït Yahia, Algeria is an Algerian lawyer, politician and human rights activist.

Takayoshi Noma is a Japanese professional baseball player for the Hiroshima Toyo Carp of Nippon Professional Baseball (NPB).

Maximilian Schachmann is a German cyclist, who currently rides for UCI WorldTeam Bora–Hansgrohe.

Jonathan Horne is a German karateka. At the 2018 World Karate Championships in Madrid, Spain, he won the gold medal in the men's +84 kg event. He represented Germany at the 2020 Summer Olympics in Tokyo, Japan.

Lyudmila Petrovna Polyakova is a Soviet and Russian actress; she is a People's Artist of Russia (1999).