List of Famous people born in January

Jakob Hoff Oftebro is a Norwegian actor. He has appeared in more than twenty films since 2004 including Hamilton and Kon-Tiki, which was nominated for the Academy Award for Best Foreign Language Film at the 85th Academy Awards.

General Erhard Bühler is a retired officer of the German Army, and the former Director General for Planning German Ministry of Defence in Berlin, Germany. He was the commander of KFOR, from September 2010 to September 2011. He led approximately 5000 troops, although the number declined during his tenure as the security situation in Kosovo improved. In 2004, Bühler had led the Bundeswehr contingent of KFOR in Prizren. Bühler commanded Allied Joint Force Command Brunssum from 31 March 2019 to 22 April 2020.

Benoit Huot is a Canadian Paralympic swimmer, who has won nine Paralympic Games gold medals for Canada, primarily in the freestyle and butterfly strokes.

David Schraven is a German journalist. Since 2010 till 2014, he used to be head of investigations at Funke Mediengruppe, one of the largest European media holdings for regional newspapers including Westdeutsche Allgemeine Zeitung. From 2007 till Sept 2014, he was treasurer of German association of investigative journalists Netzwerk Recherche. From June 2014, he is Founder and Publisher of Correctiv - the first nonprofit investigative newsroom in the German-speaking world. Schraven is one of Germany's best known investigative journalists.

Maurizio Jacobacci is a Swiss football manager and former player. He is currently manager of FC Lugano.

Heidi Neururer is a professional snowboarder from Austria. Her speciality is the Parallel (Giant) Slalom.

Aydın Örs is a Turkish former basketball coach and former head coach of Fenerbahçe. He started to play basketball in 1963. He played for DSİ Spor and Sekerspor also played for 35 times with the Turkish national basketball team.

Abigail Hawk is an American actress known for playing Samantha Bonner in the 1995 TV series Reality Check, Detective Abigail Baker in Blue Bloods, Riley Thomas in the 2016 holiday TV movie, A Christmas in Vermont, and Ellie in Domenica Cameron-Scorsese's 2017 directorial debut, Almost Paris. For her performance in Almost Paris, Hawk won the "Best Actress" award at the 2017 Golden Door Film Festival.

Julio Pinedo is the ceremonial king of the Afro-Bolivian community of the Nor Yungas province, crowned in 1992, thirty years after the death of the previous king, his grandfather Bonifacio Pinedo. His position gained official recognition in 2007 when he was sworn in by the prefect of La Paz.

John Chukwudi Utaka is a Nigerian former footballer who played as a striker and is currently a youth coach at Montpellier HSC. He is the older brother of fellow professional footballer Peter Utaka.