List of Famous people born in January

Leonardo "Léo" Rech Ortiz is a Brazilian footballer who plays for Red Bull Bragantino as a centre-back.

Muthaffar Abd al-Majid al-Nawab is an Iraqi poet and political critic.

Raisa Vasylivna Bogatyrova is a Ukrainian politician and former Vice Prime Minister of Ukraine and Minister of Health and former Secretary of National Security and Defense Council of Ukraine. In the past, Bogatyrova served as a People's Deputy of the Verkhovna Rada (parliament) for the Communist, Christian Democratic Party of Ukraine and more recently the Party of Regions.

Muğdat Çelik is a Turkish footballer who currently plays for Kayserispor.

Angélica Liddell is a Spanish writer, theatre director and actor.

Sophie Divry, is a French writer.

Kerry Norton is a British actress and singer.

Hüseyin Çapkın, is a Turkish civil servant. He was lately the police chief of Istanbul Province.

Akira Yamaguchi is a Japanese contemporary artist.

Aguila Saleh Issa is a Libyan jurist and politician who is President of the Libyan House of Representatives since 5 August 2014. He is also a representative of the town of Al Qubbah, in the east of the country.