List of Famous people born in January

Junki Itō is a Japanese former professional baseball pitcher. He has played in Nippon Professional Baseball (NPB) for the Chunichi Dragons.

Ernst Kirchweger was the first person to die as a result of political conflict in Austria's Second Republic.

Tadevuš Kandrusievič is a Belarusian prelate of the Catholic Church who served as Archbishop of Minsk–Mohilev from 2007 to 2021. He has been a bishop since 1989, and from 1991 to 2007 held posts in Russia.

Bernhard Pörksen is a German media scholar.

Reina Washio is a Japanese singer, performer and model. She is a former member of J-Pop group E-girls and former member of Flower.

Mao Abe is a Japanese singer-songwriter.

María Fátima Báñez García, better known as Fátima Báñez, is a Spanish politician, economist and jurist. She was Minister of Employment and Social Security from December 2011 until June 2018, when a vote of no-confidence against Mariano Rajoy ousted the government.

Takashi Hirose is a Japanese writer. His father was Saburō Hirose, an architect.

Fuyumi Soryo is a Japanese manga artist from Beppu, Oita, Japan. She is a graduate of the Oita prefectural Geijutsu Midorigaoka High School.

Demétrio Martinelli Magnoli is a Brazilian sociologist, PhD in human geography, writer and columnist. While in 2012, he was named by the Época magazine as one of the "New Right's shrill voices.", Magnoli considers himself a centre-left social-democrat.