List of Famous people born in January
Dominic Lee Tsz-king
Dominic Lee Tsz-king is a New People's Party politician in Hong Kong. He is a former member of the Sham Shui Po District Council for Yau Yat Tsuen from 2015 to 2019, and the former chairman of the Liberal Party Youth Committee.
Ahmad Syaikhu
Ahmad Syaikhu is an Indonesian politician who is currently President of the Prosperous Justice Party. He served as the vice mayor of Bekasi between 2013 and 2018 as the deputy of Rahmat Effendi.
Vanessa Claudio
Vanessa Zayda Claudio Rodríguez is a Puerto Rican beauty pageant contestant, who is currently working as an actress, model and TV personality in Mexico.
Eduardo Medina Mora
Eduardo Tomás Medina-Mora Icaza is a Mexican lawyer. He served as a Justice of the Supreme Court of Mexico from 10 March 2015 to 8 October 2019, when the Mexican Senate approved his resignation following an ongoing investigation by the country's Financial Intelligence Unit.
Jonathan Meese
Jonathan Meese is a German painter, sculptor, performance artist and installation artist based in Berlin and Hamburg. Meese's works include paintings, collages, drawings and writing. He also designs theater sets and wrote and starred in a play, De Frau: Dr. Poundaddylein - Dr. Ezodysseusszeusuzur in 2007 at the Volksbühne Theater. He is mainly concerned with personalities of world history, primordial myths and heroes. Jonathan Meese lives and works in Ahrensburg and Berlin.
Daniel Vangarde
Daniel Vangarde is a French songwriter and producer. He co-wrote and produced a number of hit records in the 1970s, including "Aie a Mwana", "D.I.S.C.O.", and "Cuba".
Valeriy Khoroshkovskyi
Valeriy Ivanovych Khoroshkovsky is a Ukrainian businessman, former head of the Security Service of Ukraine, former Minister of Finance, and former First Vice Prime Minister. According to Ukrainian and East European media Khoroshkovsky is one of Ukraine's richest people.
Katell Quillévéré
Katell Quillévéré is a French film director and screenwriter, known for directing the films Love Like Poison (2010) and Suzanne (2013). In 2015 she was selected to be a member of the jury for the International Critics' Week section of the 2015 Cannes Film Festival.
Johannes Chan
Johannes Chan Man-mun (陳文敏) SC (Hon) is Chair Professor of Law and former Dean of the Faculty of Law (2002-2014) at the University of Hong Kong. He specialises in human rights, constitutional and administrative law, and is the first and only academic silk ever appointed in Hong Kong. He is credited with transforming the University's Faculty of Law into one of the leading law schools in the world during his tenure as Dean.
Mahmut Orhan
Mahmut Orhan is a Turkish disc jockey and record producer. Orhan started working with music in Bursa at the age of 15 and would eventually move to Istanbul to work at a "Bebek" nightclub in 2011. He first experienced international success in 2015 with the instrumental song "Age of Emotions". One year later, his song "Feel" featuring Turkish singer and songwriter Sena Şener appeared on charts in Greece, Germany, Poland and Romania, among others. The song reached number one position on musical platform iTunes. In 2017 Mahmut released remix of "Game of Thrones" and the song "Save me" with Romanian singer Eneli. Both songs gained significant success. In June 2018 he released a remix album titled "One". Single of the album "6 Days", a remix of Colonel Bagshot's "Six Day War", reached number one in many countries such as Greece, Serbia, Romania and Bulgaria. Orhan has been part of some of the world's leading electronic music festivals, such as Exit Festival in Serbia and Untold Festival in Romania.