List of Famous people born in January

Roland Ries is a French politician from Alsace holding several posts on local, regional and national level since 1997.

Victor Lafay is a French cyclist, who currently rides for UCI WorldTeam Cofidis. In October 2020, he was named in the startlist for the 2020 Vuelta a España.

Nurhan Atasoy is a Turkish art historian. She specializes in history of Ottoman and Islamic art. She served as a Department Chairman in the Department of Fine Arts, Archeology and Art History at Istanbul University until 1999 and is now a resident scholar of the Turkish Cultural Foundation. Since 2012 she sits as a permanent guest on Tarihin Arka Odası, a TV program dedicated to history, with journalist Murat Bardakçı and historian Erhan Afyoncu.

Andrés Gustavo Herzog Sánchez is a Spanish lawyer and politician who is the spokesperson of the centrist party Union, Progress and Democracy (UPyD).

Laurence Bertrand Dorléac in Boulogne-Billancourt is a French art historian specializing in contemporary art, a professor and an author. She was elected president of the Fondation nationale des sciences politiques in May 2021.

Aminah Tjendrakasih is an Indonesian actress best known for her appearance as Lela in the television series Si Doel Anak Sekolahan. Beginning her career in her teenage years, Cendrakasih had her first starring role in 1955's Ibu dan Putri. She has since acted in more than a hundred feature films. In 2012 and 2013 she received Lifetime Achievement Awards from the Bandung Film Festival and the Indonesian Movie Awards, respectively.

Susan Charna Rothenberg was an American contemporary painter, printmaker, sculptor, and draughtswoman. She achieved a place of prominence through her iconic images of the horse, in which she synthesized the opposing forces of abstraction and representation.

Urs Rechn is a German actor, most famous for his appearance in the 2015 Cannes Grand Prix-winning Holocaust drama Son of Saul.

Au Ka-wang is the current Director of Immigration of Hong Kong since July 2020. He began service in the Immigration Department in 1988.

Benoît Vaugrenard is a French former road racing cyclist, who competed professionally for FDJeux.com and its successors between 2003 and 2019. He competed in 11 Grand Tours: six times in the Tour de France, three times in the Giro d'Italia(2004, 2016, and 2017) and twice in the Vuelta a España.