List of Famous people born in January

Wily Modesto Peña Gutierrez is a Dominican professional baseball outfielder who is currently a free agent. He previously played in Major League Baseball (MLB) for the Cincinnati Reds, Boston Red Sox, Washington Nationals, Arizona Diamondbacks and Seattle Mariners, and in NPB for the Fukuoka SoftBank Hawks and Orix Buffaloes. At 6 feet, 3 inches in height and nearly 300 pounds, the right-handed batting and throwing Peña is considered a pure power hitter best known for his long-distance home runs and high strikeout rate.

Aleksandr Vyacheslavovich Zhirov is a Russian professional footballer who plays as a centre-back for SV Sandhausen.

Myung-whun Chung is a South Korean conductor and pianist.

Kotoki Zayasu is a Japanese volleyball player who plays for RC Cannes. She played for the Japan national team during the 2016 Summer Olympics.

Yulia Galyamina is a Russian linguist and political activist.

Danae Stratou is a Greek visual and installation artist and former adjunct professor of fine art. She was born in Athens in 1964.

Héctor Ismael Jiménez-Bravo is a Canadian-Ukrainian chef of Colombian origin, business man, TV presenter, judge at the TV project "Master Chef Ukraine", "Ukraine's Got Talent", and culinary arts lecturer, currently based in Ukraine. He is founder of Bravo Restaurant Group Company. He also received the prestigious "The World Master Chef" award.

Wen Yunsong, also known as Winston Wen is a Chinese businessman and current CEO of Unihub Global Networks, a Chinese networking company. He is the son of former Chinese Premier Wen Jiabao and thus a princeling. Mr. Wen was a principal of New Horizon Capital, a private equity fund. He received his MBA from the Kellogg School of Management.

Tatjana Katharina Alexander is an Australian-born German-Austrian actress. She was born in 1969 in Melbourne, Australia. Her family relocated to Austria, where Alexander graduated from the Academy of Business and Economics in 1989.

Pierre Le Gloan was a French flying ace of World War II. Unique in the annals of wartime flying, he scored victories against German, Italian and British forces. Flying in the French and Vichy French air forces, his career has led some to call him the only pilot to become a flying ace on both sides of the war. He was killed in a landing accident in September 1943.