List of Famous people born in January

Eduardo Salim Braide is a Brazilian lawyer and politician. He was president of Caema (2005–2006) and secretary of Participatory Budgeting (2009–2010). Braide is federal deputy for Maranhão and was candidate for mayor of São Luís.

Jown Anderson Cardona Agudelo is a Colombian footballer who plays as a midfielder for Chinese Super League team Guangzhou City.

Abdullah Levent Tüzel is a Turkish politician who was one of the founders of the Labour Party (EMEP) in 1996. He was a Member of Parliament for İstanbul's third electoral district, had been elected as an Independent in the 2011 general election with the backing of the Labour, Democracy and Freedom Bloc. He was with the parliamentary group of the Peoples' Democratic Party (HDP).

Venezuelan anthropologist Elisabeth Burgos-Debray, former wife of the French philosopher Régis Debray, was the editor of Rigoberta Menchú's controversial autobiography I, Rigoberta Menchú. She was director of the Maison de l'Amerique Latine in Paris and of the Institut Cultural Français in Seville.

Kevin Joseph Pangos is a Canadian professional basketball player for Zenit Saint Petersburg of the VTB United League and the EuroLeague. He spent his college basketball career playing for the Gonzaga Bulldogs of the West Coast Conference. He was named the 2015 WCC Player of the Year, as well as a third-team All-American by Sporting News. Pangos has also represented Canada on the international stage. He earned an All-EuroLeague Second Team selection in 2018.

Chantal Laboureur is a German beach volleyball player.

Walid Fitaihi is a Saudi-American physician and also a motivational speaker on Saudi television. In November 2017, a decade after returning from study and work in the United States, Fitaihi was arrested by Saudi authorities and taken to the Ritz Carlton hotel as part of the 2017–19 Saudi Arabian purge, together with many prominent prisoners. He was later moved to al-Hair prison, south of the capital.

Luo Wen-jia is a Taiwanese politician. A member of the Democratic Progressive Party, Luo worked closely with Chen Shui-bian, first as Chen's legislative assistant, and later within Taipei City Government while Chen was mayor. When Chen was elected president in 2000, Luo joined the Executive Yuan as vice chairman of the Council of Cultural Affairs. Between 2002 and 2004, Luo was a member of the Legislative Yuan. He left the legislature for an appointment as head of the Council for Hakka Affairs, from which he stepped down in 2005 to run unsuccessfully for the Taipei County magistracy. Luo was subsequently defeated as a legislative candidate in 2008. Luo returned to politics in 2019, when he was named secretary-general of the Democratic Progressive Party.

Ivo Grbić is a Croatian footballer who plays as a goalkeeper for Ligue 1 club Lille, on loan from La Liga club Atlético Madrid, and the Croatia national team.

Priscila Machado is a Brazilian TV Host model and beauty pageant titleholder who was crowned Miss Brasil 2011. She represented Brazil in Miss Universe 2011, and finished the competition as 2nd Runner-Up.