List of Famous people born in January

Simon Laroche Nganou Noubissie, better known by the stage name Benash, is a French rapper from Boulogne-Billancourt, Hauts-de-Seine. He began his career as a member of the band 40000 Gang, before going solo under the wing of Booba.

François Spirito, born Lydio Spirito was an Italian-born French gangster. He was one of the leaders of the French Connection, and inspired the film Borsalino which featured Alain Delon and Jean-Paul Belmondo.

Jean-Michel Lorain is a French chef. He is the owner of the restaurant La Côte Saint Jacques located in Joigny, department of Yonne in the region of Bourgogne. With his father Michel Lorain, he was rated 19.5/20 in the Gault et Millau and had three stars at the Guide Michelin from 1986 to 2001 and from 2004 to 2015. He has two Michelin stars since 2015.

Samuel Chao Chung Ting is an American physicist who received the Nobel Prize in 1976, with Burton Richter, for discovering the subatomic J/ψ particle. He is the founder and principal investigator for the international $2 billion Alpha Magnetic Spectrometer experiment which was installed on the International Space Station on 19 May 2011.

João Batista de Sales, better known as Fio Maravilha, is a former Brazilian football player. In Brazil he played for Flamengo, Paysandu Sport Club, CEUB, Desportiva and São Cristóvão. Later he moved to the United States, where he played for the New York Eagles, the Montebello Panthers, and the San Francisco Mercury.

Miyu Takeuchi is a Japanese singer based in South Korea. She is a former member of AKB48.

Micaela Ramazzotti is an Italian actress. Her film credits include Non prendere impegni stasera, The First Beautiful Thing and The Big Heart of the Girls. Ramazzotti was a regular cast member of the show Crimini bianchi.

Dana Michelle Gourrier is an American actress, known for her roles as Cora in the film Django Unchained (2012), and as Minnie Mink in The Hateful Eight (2015), both directed by Quentin Tarantino.

Khadija Benguenna is an Algerian journalist working in the Al Jazeera channel in Qatar. Born in Algeria in 1965, Khadija Benguenna graduated from the radio and television section of the Media Institute at the University of Algiers.

Fabien Vehlmann is a French comics writer best known for Green Manor and Seuls. Yvan Delporte dubbed him "The René Goscinny of the third millennium".