List of Famous people born in January

Kim Sa-rang is a South Korean actress and model. She is most known for her roles in the television series Secret Garden with Hyun Bin, A Love to Kill with Rain, and This is My Love with Joo Jin-mo. She is also known for being crowned Miss Korea in 2000 and representing South Korea in Miss Universe 2001, the 50th Miss Universe pageant in Puerto Rico. She won 'Best National Costume' Hanbok. In 2015, she became a free agent after leaving Brave Entertainment.

Reo Sano is a Japanese dancer and actor. He is one of the performers and the youngest member of the Japanese all-male dance and music group Generations from Exile Tribe.

Keiichiro Kobayashi born 1966 is a Japanese macroeconomist at the Keio University. His areas of expertise are Endogenous Growth Theory, General Equilibrium, Business Cycles, Bad Debt Problem, Debt Control Policy, Macropolitical Economy. He received a Ph.D. in Economics in 1998 from the University of Chicago. His dissertation "The Division of Labor, the Extent of the Market, and Economic Growth" was written under supervision of Robert Lucas, an America's prominent economist and a Nobel Prize Winner in Economics in 1995. Kobayashi was awarded Nikkei Economics Book Award in 2001 and Osaragi Jiro Critics Award in 2002 both for Trap of the Japanese Economy.

Forugh Farrokhzad was an influential Iranian poet and film director. She was a controversial modernist poet and an iconoclast, writing from a female point of view.

Cyprian Kizito Lwanga, is a Ugandan Roman Catholic prelate who serves as the Archbishop of the Archdiocese of Kampala. He was appointed as Archbishop of Kampala on 19 August 2006.

Ricky Subagja is a former Indonesian badminton player. He was rated among the greatest doubles specialists in the sport's history.

Fumiya Hayakawa is a Japanese football player.

Joaquín Francisco Puig Ferrer, known as Ximo Puig, is a Spanish politician who has served as leader of the Socialist Party of the Valencian Country (PSPV-PSOE), the Valencian regional branch of the PSOE, since March 2012. He is the current President of the Valencian Government. Ximo Puig Government of the Valencian Community

Kelvin Jones is a British–Zimbabwean singer-songwriter. Since 2016 he lives in Germany.

Shizuo Akira is a professor at the Department of Host Defense, Osaka University, Japan. He has made ground-breaking discoveries in the field of immunology, most significantly in the area of innate host defense mechanisms.