List of Famous people born in January

Andreas Dressel is a German politician (SPD) and since 28 March 2018 Finance Senator of the city state of Hamburg. From 2011 to 2018, he was chairman of the SPD Parliamentary Group in the Hamburg Parliament.

Rudy La Scala is a singer-songwriter and record producer, born in Rocca di Papa, Lazio, Italy. At a young age, La Scala migrated to Venezuela, where he completed his primary and secondary studies, while learning piano and guitar. He began his career with a short lived band named Las Explosiones de Goma in the 1960s. In 1971 he was presented as a solo artist under the name Flavio, finally presenting himself as Rudy La Scala in 1974. His work as a songwriter has been very successful, including songs recorded by Karina, María Conchita Alonso, Guillermo Dávila, Kiara, Ruddy Rodríguez, Proyecto M, Carlos Mata, Las Payasitas Nifu Nifa and Gerardo Mora.

Ivan Dodig is a Croatian tennis player. His career-high ATP rankings are world No. 29 in singles and world No. 4 in doubles. Dodig is a Grand Slam champion after winning the 2015 French Open men's doubles title with Marcelo Melo, and 2021 Australian Open men's doubles title with Filip Polášek, adding the mixed-doubles titles at Roland-Garros in 2018 and 2019 with Latisha Chan.

Morgan Elizabeth York is an American writer and former child actress best known for her roles as Kim Baker in the film Cheaper by the Dozen, and as Sarah in the Hannah Montana series.

Eşref Apak is a Turkish hammer thrower. Apak was a member of Fenerbahçe Athletics in Istanbul then transferred to Enkaspor, where he is coached by Artun Talay. The 185 cm tall athlete at 115 kg (254 lb) is a student of physical education and sports at Gazi University in Ankara.

Jorge Sebastián Sáez is an Argentine footballer who plays as a striker on Chilean club Unión La Calera.

Alice Bota is a German journalist, presently working for the weekly Die Zeit, and a book author. Born in Poland, she studied in both Germany and Poland and focuses on topics of Eastern Europe.

Serdar Hüseyin Yıldırım Turkish politician and engineer. Since 6 August 2019 first president of Turkish Space Agency.

Ottmar Georg Edenhofer is one of the world's leading experts on climate change policy, environmental and energy policy, and energy economics. His work has been heavily cited. Edenhofer currently holds the professorship of the Economics of Climate Change at the Technical University of Berlin. He is designated director and chief economist of the Potsdam Institute for Climate Impact Research (PIK) as well as director of the Mercator Research Institute on Global Commons and Climate Change (MCC). From 2008 to 2015 he served as one of the co-chairs of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) Working Group III "Mitigation of Climate Change".

Makiko Horai is a former Japanese volleyball player.