List of Famous people born in January

Clara Pinto-Correia is a Portuguese-born novelist, journalist and educator.

Shunsuke Izumiya is a Japanese track and field athlete specialising in the high hurdles. He won a bronze medal at the 2018 World U20 Championships. He later also won a bronze medal at the 2019 Summer Universiade.

Vitali Sergeyevich Bezrukov, is a Soviet and Russian actor and theatre director.

Muhammad Siddiq Al-Minshawi, known simply as Al-Minshawi, was an Egyptian Quranic reciter and Hafiz. Al-Minshawi was born into a Quranic family, with his brother, father, grandfather become famous Qurra. Nicknamed Al-Saut Al-Baki, he is part of a quadrumvirate, along with Abdul Basit, Mustafa Ismail, and Al-Hussary, which are considered to be the most important and famous Qurra of modern times to have an outsized impact on the Islamic World.

Armelino Donizetti Quagliato, best known as Zetti, is a Brazilian football pundit and retired manager and footballer, who played as a goalkeeper.

José Álvaro Machado Pacheco Pereira, GCL is a Portuguese political commentator, historian and politician. He is a member of the center-right Social Democratic Party.

Serhiy Anatolyovych Hayduk is a Ukrainian Vice Admiral and a former commander of the Ukrainian Navy.

Charles Handy CBE is an Irish author/philosopher specialising in organisational behaviour and management. Among the ideas he has advanced are the "portfolio career" and the "Shamrock Organization".

Guido Kratschmer is a retired West German decathlete. His sports club was the USC Mainz.

Takanori Kawai is a Japanese politician of the Democratic Party of Japan, a member of the House of Councillors in the Diet. A native of Kyoto, Kyoto and graduate of Ritsumeikan University, he was elected for the first time in 2007 after working at Teijin since 1987.