List of Famous people born in January

Regimantas Adomaitis is a Lithuanian film and stage actor. He is known in Russia, Germany, and other countries besides Lithuania.

Keina Suda is a Japanese musician and singer-songwriter. He belongs to the label Unborde, a sublabel of Warner Music Japan. Before 2017 he made music using Vocaloid and other related softwares under the name balloon.

Katsuhiko Kumazaki is the commissioner for the Nippon Professional Baseball league. He has served as the Commissioner of Baseball (NPB) since 2014. He has handed out punishments for many reasons including gambling. He has been key in the return of baseball to the 2020 Olympics.

Emre Taner is a Turkish civil servant born in Lice, Diyarbakır Province and was until May 2010 the undersecretary of the governmental intelligence agency of Turkey, the National Intelligence Organization. He is known for rejuvenating the organization, and encouraging the government to adopt a more active stance with regard to foreign policy.

Chi Chia-ying ; born Auli Puruburubuane on 8 January 1983), known professionally as Jia Jia, is a Taiwanese aboriginal singer and songwriter. She was born in Taitung City to a father of Bunun descent and a mother of Puyuma descent. Her uncle is Purdur, the winner of the Best Mandarin Male Singer of the 11th Golden Melody Awards. Her sister is the singer Samingad.

Leonel Di Plácido is an Argentine professional footballer who plays as a defender for Lanús.

James Cottriall is an English musician, active predominantly in Austria and partly living in Los Angeles, California. He became famous throughout Austria with the success of his first single, "Unbreakable", which spent twenty weeks in the Austrian top 40 charts in summer 2010. "Unbreakable" was nominated for the Song of the Year category at the 2010 Austrian music Amadeus Awards.

Demir Sabanci is a Turkish entrepreneur, venture capitalist, and philanthropist. He is the chairman of Sedes Holding and its subsidiaries. His businesses range from the largest personal care market chain in Turkey, to real estate management and development in New York City.

Mamoru “Mark” Mohri , AM is a Japanese scientist, a former NASDA astronaut, and a veteran of two NASA space shuttle missions. He is the first Japanese astronaut who was part of an official Japanese space program. The first-ever Japanese person in space, Toyohiro Akiyama, was a journalist who was trained in the Soviet Union.

Paola Verenice Pabón Caranqui is an Ecuadorian lawyer, politician and feminist, who in the course of her career, has served as a representative to the National Assembly for the PAIS Alliance movement from 2009 and 2015 and has also worked under the presidencies of Rafael Correa and Lenin Moreno.