List of Famous people born in January

Christian Mayer is an Austrian former alpine skier. He won the Alpine Ski World Cup Giant Slalom title in 1993/94.

Elise Collier is an Australian sports shooter who is also a current national record holder in women's 10m air rifle. She specialised in the sport of shooting following an accident which fractured her skull. She made her debut appearance at the Olympics representing Australia at the 2020 Summer Olympics.

Kendall Jamaal Waston Manley is a Costa Rican professional footballer who plays as a defender for Saprissa and the Costa Rica national football team.

Pedro Bispo Moreira Júnior, or simply Pedro Júnior, is a Brazilian striker who plays for Vila Nova.

Muhammad Othman Elkhosht (al-khasht) is the president of Cairo University. He is a professor of philosophy of religion and contemporary philosophy at Faculty of Arts, Cairo University. He is a leading authority on modern Islam, and a member of the Association for Intercultural Philosophy, which encourages a dialogue among philosophers from all over the world. He held several positions including the Vice President of Education and Students Affairs at Cairo University. He is also a member of local and international committees: the Interfaith Dialogue Center in Al-Azhar, the Supreme Council for Islamic Affairs, Awqaf Academy, the Supreme Council of Naif Arab University for Security Sciences and the Science and Innovation Committee of Shanghai Jiao Tong University.

Wong Chin-chu is a Taiwanese educator and politician. She was a member of the Legislative Yuan from 1993 to 2001. Wong stepped down in the midst of her third term, as she was elected magistrate of Changhua County later that year. She served as magistrate until 2005. In 2007, Wong was named the minister of the Council for Cultural Affairs, a position she left in 2008 to be reelected to the legislature.

Valentina Alazraki Crastich is a Mexican journalist and writer, correspondent of Noticieros Televisa at the Vatican since 1974 and W Radio since 2005.

Miyu Kubota is a Japanese voice actress, singer and idol from Saitama Prefecture. She is a member of I Ris. Kubota is affiliated with 81 Produce and Avex Pictures.

Mishaal bin Saud Al Saud was the governor of the Najran Province from April 1997 to November 2008 and is a member of House of Saud.

Javier Heraud Pérez (1942–1963) was a Peruvian poet and member of the Ejército de Liberación Nacional (ELN). In his early life he studied at Markham College and later he continued his studies at Pontifical Catholic University of Peru.