List of Famous people born in January

Aomi Muyock is a Swiss actress best known for starring in Gaspar Noé's controversial 2015 film Love.

Nicolas-Gerrit Kühn is a German professional footballer who plays for Bayern Munich II as a winger and striker.

Andrey Viktorovich Rudensky is a Soviet and Russian film and theater actor.

LaVon Mercer is an American-Israeli former basketball player. He played at the center position. As a high school senior, he averaged 37.6 points, 30.1 rebounds, and 12 blocked shots per game, and was named a Parade All-American. Playing college basketball for the Georgia Bulldogs, he became the school's all-time career-leader in blocks and field-goal percentage, set its single-season shooting percentage record, and had the best SEC Tournament career field goal percentage of any SEC player. Drafted by the San Antonio Spurs in the 3rd round of the 1980 NBA Draft, he instead played 14 seasons in the Israeli Basketball Premier League, where he was the MVP in 1981. He obtained Israeli citizenship, and also played for the Israeli national basketball team.

Edy Germán Brambila Rosales, known as Edy Brambila, is a Mexican football midfielder currently playing for Bravos de Juarez in Mexico.

Aysen Sergeyevich Nikolayev is a Russian politician of Yakut ethnicity. Since 28 May 2018, he has served as the fourth Head of the Sakha Republic.

Mokhtar Belkhiter is an Algerian international football player. He is currently playing for CR Belouizdad in the Algerian Ligue Professionnelle 1.

Piotr Paweł Żyła is a Polish ski jumper. He is a member of the national team and competed at the 2014 Winter Olympics in Sochi. He is the 2021 World Champion on the normal hill, a bronze medalist of 2017 World Championships in individual large hill event, 2017 World Champion and a two-time World Championship bronze medalist and in the team large hill event, also the two time Ski Flying World Championships bronze medalist in team.

Luis Pío Moa Rodríguez better known as simply Pío Moa, is a Spanish writer and journalist. He has authored historical essays about the origins of the Spanish Civil War, the Second Republic in Spain, Francoism and the various political movements of that era.

Germano Celant was an Italian art historian, critic and curator who coined the term "Arte Povera" in 1967 and wrote many articles and books on the subject.