List of Famous people born in January

Shingo Tatsumi is a Japanese former professional baseball pitcher in Japan's Nippon Professional Baseball. He played for the Fukuoka SoftBank Hawks from 2009 to 2015.

Daniel Axt is a German actor. He is known for portraying Nick in Disney's film Rock It!.

Neil Norman Burger is an American film and television director, writer, and producer. He is known for the fake-documentary Interview with the Assassin (2002), the period drama The Illusionist (2006), Limitless (2011), and the sci-fi action film Divergent (2014), based on the dystopian novel of the same name by Veronica Roth.

Wang Shaw-lan is a Taiwanese businesswoman who serves as the publisher of the United Daily News and the publishing-ceased Min Sheng Bao in Taiwan. She studied at Shih Hsin University, graduating in 1964.

İhsan Oktay Anar, is a Turkish writer, illustrator, literature translator and an academic.

Paulo Rabello de Castro is a Brazilian economist, incumbent president of the Brazilian Development Bank (BNDES). He was also the president of Brazilian Institute of Geography and Statistics (IBGE). For both offices, Rabello was appointed by president Michel Temer.

Ezel Akay is a Turkish film actor, film director and film producer.

Mélissa Michelle Marjolec Laveaux is an independent Canadian singer-songwriter and guitarist of Haitian descent previously signed to No Format!. Her music has been described as a mix of roots, folk, and blues using her signature percussive finger-style guitar stylings and soulful vocals. In 2006, Laveaux released the first full-length album of her own songs, which she co-produced with percussionist Rob Reid and Lisa Patterson of Imaginit Music Studios. Laveaux has received critical praise from her peers in such magazines as Colorlines and is a Songs from the Heart recipient from the 2006 Ontario Council of Folk Festivals' conference in the World Music category for penning "Koud'lo".

Usmankhan Alimov was a Grand Mufti of Uzbekistan and Chairman of the Muslim Board of Uzbekistan. In 2018, he was included in the list of 500 Most Influential Muslims in the world.

Mauricio Claver-Carone is an American lobbyist, lawyer, former Senior Director on the National Security Council, and international development official. He took office as president of the Inter-American Development Bank in October 2020.