List of Famous people born in January

Tomás de la Quadra-Salcedo Fernández del Castillo is a Spanish politician who served as Minister of Territorial Administration from December 1982 to July 1985 and as Minister of Justice from March 1991 to July 1993.

Yi Gang is the Governor of the People's Bank of China since 2018. He is also the former Director of the State Administration of Foreign Exchange.

Mohammad Rasoulof is an Iranian independent filmmaker. He studied sociology in Tehran. Currently he lives in Tehran and in Hamburg.

Hicham Kochman better known by his stage name Axiom, is a rapper, beatmaker, record producer and Founder of KEAKR, a mobile social media app dedicated to the hip hop culture. As a social activist, he is involved in different civil rights and non-profit organizations such as Collectif Stop le Contrôle au Faciès, Think tank Graines de France8, and Collectif ACLeFeu.

Mika Launis is a Finnish illustrator and graphic designer who studied graphic design at the University of Art and Design in Helsinki. For his final project, he did the illustrations for a children's book written in Northern Sámi. Launis has illustrated several books, mainly children's books. In addition, he has provided illustrations for book covers, of which his most well-known are probably the covers of the Finnish versions of the Harry Potter books. Some of his works have also been published as postage stamps. Launis was the 1997 recipient of the Rudolf Koivu Award, which is awarded to illustrations in children's and young adult books. Furthermore, he won the competition to design Finland's first Euro postage stamp.

Ghani Yalouz is a French former wrestler who competed in the 1992 Summer Olympics, in the 1996 Summer Olympics, and in the 2000 Summer Olympics.

Paz Esteban López is a Spanish intelligence officer serving as Director of the National Intelligence Centre (CNI) since 2020. She is the first woman to hold the post and was previously the Secretary-General of the agency from 2017 to 2019, under Félix Sanz Roldán.

Luc André Diouf Dioh is a Spanish politician as well as a trade unionist and syndicalist. He is known in the Spanish media for being the first politician of African descent elected from the Spanish Socialist Workers' Party, as well as for being homeless in the past and having to sleep on a beach of the Canary Islands for over a month.

Chan Kin-por, GBS, JP is a member of the Legislative Council of Hong Kong. He is chairman of the Legco Finance Committee.

Huma Bhabha is a Pakistani-American sculptor based in Poughkeepsie, New York. Known for her uniquely grotesque, figurative forms that often appear dissected or dismembered, Bhabha often uses found materials in her sculptures, including styrofoam, cork, rubber, paper, wire, and clay. She occasionally incorporates objects given to her by other people into her artwork. Many of these sculptures are also cast in bronze. She is equally prolific in her works on paper, creating vivid pastel drawings, eerie photographic collages, and haunting print editions.