List of Famous people born in January

Juichi Yamgiwa is a Japanese anthropologist and the president of Kyoto University.

Ikuma Sekigawa is a Japanese footballer currently playing as a defender for Kashima Antlers.

Mhamed Arezki is a French actor of Kabyle origins best known for his starring and supporting roles in French television series. He portrays Lyès Beloumi on the action packed, comedic, police drama Les Bleus, young Tony on the gangster mini-series Les Beaux Mecs and Brigadier Jean-Baptiste Medjaoui on another police drama, Candice Renoir. He is also known for his roles in such films as The Tourist, Zim and Co. and Adieu Gary.

Carsten Koch is a German organist, choral conductor and academic. He is the church musician at the Unionskirche in Idstein, Hesse, conducting the concert choir Idsteiner Kantorei and the orchestra Nassauische Kammerphilharmonie that he founded. He lectured orchestral conducting at the Frankfurt University of Music and Performing Arts.

Hikmet Çetin is a Turkish politician former minister of foreign affairs and was leader of the Republican People's Party (CHP) for a short time. He served also as the Speaker of the Turkish Grand National Assembly.

Felipe Garcia dos Prazeres, simply known as Felipe Garcia, is a Brazilian footballer who plays for Tombense as a goalkeeper.

Yuuka Yano is a Japanese actress. She played the role of Fuka Igasaki in the 2015 Super Sentai TV series Shuriken Sentai Ninninger.

Kazuya Nakayama (中山一也) is a Japanese actor and producer known for films such as Izo and Agitator directed by Takashi Miike.

Kwik Kian Gie was the Indonesian Coordinating Minister of Economics and Finance from 1999–2000, and Minister of National Development Planning from 2001-2004. He is a prominent Indonesian economist who often wrote columns in the newspaper KOMPAS criticizing the policies of the Suharto administration in the late 1980s and 1990s. But a decades later he also spoke on one of Indonesia's national television, no Indonesian leader who dared to argue but Sukarno, Suharto and Gus Dur. He is well known for being outspoken and is regarded as an honest politician and economist although his writings are sometimes considered controversial.

Yusuke Morozumi is a Japanese curler from Karuizawa. He skipped the Japanese men's team at the 2018 Winter Olympics.