List of Famous people born in January

Eri Yoshida is a Japanese professional baseball player. She plays as a sidearm knuckleball pitcher. In 2008, at the age of 16, she became the first female drafted by a Japanese men's professional baseball team.

Prince Carlo of Bourbon-Two Sicilies, Duke of Castro is one of the two claimants to the headship of the former House of Bourbon-Two Sicilies.

Maria Luísa Mendonça is a Brazilian actress. She debuted in television by acting in the 1993 telenovela Engraçadinha in the role of a hermaphrodite woman, Buba. Debuting in cinema with Quem Matou Pixote?, her first most prominent role in films was in Foolish Heart, for which she was nominated for Best Actress at the 1st Grande Prêmio Cinema Brasil and at the Silver Condor Award.

Werner Johannes Hilpert was a German politician of the Centre Party and CDU, and is largely considered one of the founding fathers of the Federal Republic of Germany.

Cristian Andrés Dájome Arboleda is a Colombian professional footballer who plays as a forward for Vancouver Whitecaps FC.

Ariel Mauricio Rojas is a football midfielder who plays for Atlético Tucumán.

Tetsurō Sagawa was a Japanese actor and voice actor from Tateyama, Chiba. He was a graduate of Waseda University.

Michael Roy Bates, also known as Prince Michael of Sealand, is a British businessman and self-published author. He operates a micronation called the Principality of Sealand, which he inherited from his parents Paddy Roy Bates and Joan Bates. He has claimed the title "Prince of Sealand" since 2012.

Kumiko Imura is a Japanese long jumper.

Montxo Armendariz is a Spanish film director and screenwriter. His film Las cartas de Alou won at the San Sebastian Film Festival. His next film, Historias del Kronen, was entered into the 1995 Cannes Film Festival. Secretos del corazón won several Goya Awards, the Blue Angel Award at the Berlin Film Festival and received the Academy Award nomination for Best Foreign Film.