List of Famous people born in January

Marsha Lisa Thomason is an English television and film actress who is best known for playing Sarah Evers in Disney's The Haunted Mansion, Nessa Holt in the first two seasons of the NBC series Las Vegas, Naomi Dorrit on the ABC series Lost, and FBI agent Diana Barrigan on the USA Network series White Collar.

Pauline Vasseur, who performs under the mononym Pauline, is a French composer, songwriter and singer.

Miao Ke-li is a Taiwanese actress, television host and singer.

Hildebrando Pascoal Nogueira Neto, popularly known as the Deputado Motosserra (chainsaw representative), is a Brazilian politician and former colonel of Acre State's Military Police. He was elected as a federal representative of the PFL, but was expelled by his party after his criminal activity came to light.

Turgay Ciner is a Turkish industrialist whose investments are located in Turkey, the United Kingdom and the United States. Ciner Group is a conglomerate which carries out its activities in four main groups; Energy and Mining, Glass and Chemicals, Shipping and Maritime, Media.

Ronaldo Cisneros Morell is a Mexican professional footballer who plays as a striker for Liga MX club Guadalajara.

Sōkokurai Eikichi is a former professional sumo wrestler from Inner Mongolia, China. He was the only Chinese national to reach the top makuuchi division. Sōkokurai is of Mongolian descent. He made his professional debut in 2003 and was promoted to the top division in September, 2010. In April 2011 he was ordered to retire by the Japan Sumo Association after being found guilty of involvement in match-fixing. Refusing to do so, he was dismissed. However, in March 2013 his dismissal was nullified by the Tokyo District Court. After the Sumo Association decided not to appeal the decision, he reappeared on the banzuke in July 2013 at the Nagoya Basho, ranked as a maegashira 15, the rank he was at when he was expelled. His highest rank of maegashira 2 was achieved in March 2017. He won one special prize for Technique and one gold star for beating a yokozuna. In 2019 he acquired Japanese citizenship and he retired after the March 2020 tournament to take over Arashio stable.

Kenzo Fujisue is a Japanese politician of the Liberal Democratic Party of Japan, a member of the House of Councillors in the Diet. A native of Kumamoto, Kumamoto, he graduated from Tokyo Institute of Technology and received master's degrees from Massachusetts Institute of Technology and Harvard University in the United States. He was elected to the House of Councillors for the first time in 2004 when he left assistant professorship at the University of Tokyo.

Mohamed El Ouafa was a Moroccan diplomat and politician of the Istiqlal Party. He was Minister of Education in Abdelilah Benkirane's cabinet.

Lilia Katri Moritz Schwarcz is a Brazilian historian and anthropologist. She is a doctor in social anthropology at the University of São Paulo, full professor at the Faculdade de Filosofia, Letras e Ciências Humanas in the same institution, and visiting professor at Princeton University.