List of Famous people born in January

Ahmed Hulusi is an Islamic author from Turkey, whose works focus on philosophical and religious ideas.

Ruben Bemelmans is a Belgian male professional tennis player. His career-high ATP rankings are world No. 84 in singles, achieved in September 2015, and world No. 128 in doubles, achieved in October 2012. As a qualifier, Bemelmans reached the quarterfinals of Vienna in 2013, defeating No. 4 seed Philipp Kohlschreiber en route.

Igor Igorevich Portnyagin is a Russian professional footballer who plays as a forward.

Oleksandr Vіtaliyovych Shlapak is a Ukrainian politician, bureaucrat, and former Minister of Finance of Ukraine.

Zahra Al Kharji is a Kuwaiti actress.

Jan Lamb Hoi-fong is a Hong Kong DJ, singer and actor. Lamb is the elder brother of Jerry Lamb and younger brother of singer and radio personality Sandy Lamb. He formed a comedic musical duo during the late 1980s with fellow actor and comedian Eric Kot, called Softhard). His wife Cass Phang is a singer.

Denis Alexeyevich Kolodin is a Russian football coach and former central defender. He was called up to the Russia squad for UEFA Euro 2008 in Austria and Switzerland.

John Hopkins is an English actor, known for playing Sgt. Dan Scott on Midsomer Murders, Lowell in Alice in Wonderland and for his recurring role in Poldark.

Princess Rym al-Ali is the Algerian wife of Prince Ali bin Hussein of Jordan, whom she married on 7 September 2004.

Geoff Tate is an American singer and songwriter. He rose to fame with the progressive metal band Queensrÿche, who had commercial success with their 1988 album Operation: Mindcrime and 1990 album Empire. Tate is ranked fourteenth on Hit Parader's list of the 100 Greatest Metal Vocalists of All Time. He was voted No. 2 on That Metal Show's top 5 hard rock vocalists of the 1980s. In 2012, he won the Vegas Rocks! Magazine Music Award for "Voice in Progressive Heavy Metal". In 2015, he placed ninth on OC Weekly's list of the 10 Best High-Pitched Metal Singers. After his farewell tour as Queensrÿche, he renamed his band Operation: Mindcrime, after the Queensrÿche album of the same name.