List of Famous people born in January

Heidi Mittermaier is a German alpine skier. She competed in two events at the 1964 Winter Olympics.

María Laura Leguizamón is an Argentine Justicialist Party politician. She was a National Senator for Buenos Aires Province from 2011 to 2017 and for the City of Buenos Aires from 2003 to 2007. She also served in the Argentine Chamber of Deputies and in the Buenos Aires City Legislature.

Muharrem Saruhan Hünel is a Turkish actor. His mother is of Arab descent who moved from Baghdad to Turkey. His father is of Albanian descent and is a dancer. He has a sister, Aslı Hünel, who is a singer. Hünel started his career through modeling. He made his cinematic debut in 1993 with a role in Yasak Sokaklar, and appeared in the movies Ufukta Bir Ağaç and Somuncu Baba: Aşkın Sırrı. In 1992, he had his first TV role with Gündüzün Karanlığı. He was noted with his leading role in the series Aynalı Tahir and gained more fame through his role in Karagül. Between 2019–2020, Hünel portrayed the character of Alişar in the historical drama Kuruluş: Osman.

Sakiko Tamagawa is a Japanese actress, voice actress and singer from Tokyo, Japan. She is affiliated with Sigma Seven. She voices Rei Kuki in Genji Tsuushin Agedama, Natsumi Tsujimoto in You're Under Arrest, Kazama's mother in Crayon Shin-chan, and Toyama-san in Atashin'chi. Other roles of note include Pirotess in Record of Lodoss War, Cocoa in NG Knight Ramune & 40, Tachikoma in Ghost in the Shell: Stand Alone Complex, Rouge in Starship Girl Yamamoto Yohko, Juiz in Eden of the East, and Jasmine in Cross Ange.

Ayron del Valle Rodríguez is a Colombian football forward who plays for Juárez on loan from Millonarios.

María Gabriela Hernández Gómez, also known as Gaby Hernández, is a Chilean theater, film and television actress with a long active career.

Mao Yushi is a Chinese economist. Mao graduated from Shanghai Jiao Tong University in 1950 and was labeled a 'rightist' in 1958. In 1986 Mao was a visiting scholar at Harvard University and in 1990 Mao was a senior lecturer at Queensland University.

Prune Nourry is a French multidisciplinary artist currently working at the Invisible Dog Art Center in Brooklyn, NY.

Waltraud Meier is a Grammy Award–winning German dramatic soprano and mezzo-soprano singer. She is particularly known for her Wagnerian roles as Kundry, Isolde, Ortrud, Venus, Fricka, and Sieglinde, but has also had success in the French and Italian repertoire appearing as Eboli, Amneris, Carmen, and Santuzza. She resides in Munich.

Djuanda Kartawidjaja was an ethnic Sundanese noble from the court of Cirebon, an Indonesian politician and the 11th and the final Prime Minister of Indonesia. Raden Djuanda Kartawidjaja, usually referred to simply as Djuanda, served as Minister of Communications in seven cabinets from 1946 to 1949 and 1950 to 1953; as Minister of State in 1949 and Minister of Welfare from 1949 to 1950. Djuanda was Indonesia's final Prime Minister in Sukarno "Karya" cabinets, the final cabinets of the Liberal Democracy Era and as First Minister from 1959 until his death in 1963.