List of Famous people born in January

Konstantin Mikhailovich Genich is a former Russian professional football player. Currently he is a TV football commentator.

Carlos Eduardo Fernandes Léo, known as Eduardo Kobra, nicknamed Kobra, is a street artist who officially began his career in 1987 at 12 years old, in his hometown of São Paulo. Since then he has painted over 3,000 murals on five different continents. Some of these murals are commissioned while others are his original, raw ideas. Kobra now works with a team of artists who paint between two and four murals each month. To this day Kobra continues to live and work in his hometown of São Paulo.

Grand Ayatollah Muhammad Is'haq al-Fayadh, is one of the most senior Shi'a marja living in Iraq after Ali al-Sistani.

Sven Epiney is a Swiss TV presenter, radio host and editor, who works for Swiss national television and radio SRF. He speaks German, French, English and Italian. Since 2008 he has been the Swiss German commentator for the Eurovision Song Contest. He was the presenter of Miss Switzerland 2010.

Kaori Sadohara is a Japanese voice actress and singer. Her most known role is Chocolat in Noucome. She is affiliated with the agency Object. She married fellow voice actor Yoshihisa Kawahara in 2017.

Franklin Shea Whigham Jr. is an American actor. He portrayed Elias "Eli" Thompson in the HBO drama series Boardwalk Empire. He also appeared in the first season of True Detective, the third season of Fargo, and Joker. He appeared as Agent Michael Stasiak in Fast & Furious and Fast & Furious 6.

Nathalie Lefebvre, known under the name of Melody, is a Belgian former singer. Although from Flanders, she sang mostly in French.

Jamil Al Sayyed is a Lebanese politician, a current Member of the Parliament of Lebanon, and the former head of Lebanon's Sureté Générale or Lebanese General Security Directorate. He was detained for four years by a law he drafted himself stating that judges can detain a suspect for an indefinite time without trial, from 2005 to 2009, due to his alleged involvement in the assassination of former Lebanese prime minister Rafik Hariri. He was released on 29 April 2009 due to "inconsistencies in the statements of key witnesses and of a lack of corroborative evidence to support these statements and to the fact that some witnesses had modified their statements and one key witness had expressly retracted his original statement incriminating the persons detained". He was never charged with a crime. He is also a recipient of many International orders and decorations, notably the French Légion d'Honneur, at the garde of “Commandeur”.

Maddalen Iriarte Okiñena is a journalist and politician from the Basque Country in Spain. Since 2016, she is the spokesperson for EH Bildu at the Basque Parliament. She led the candidacy of EH Bildu in the 2020 Basque regional election.

Joan Herrera i Torres is a Spanish lawyer and politician from Catalonia. He was the leader of the leftist party Iniciativa per Catalunya.