List of Famous people born in January

Ramiro Arias is an Argentine footballer who plays for Quilmes Atlético Club, as a defender.

Nathalie Boutefeu is a French actress, film director and screenwriter. She has appeared in 40 films since 1990. She starred in the film The Butterfly's Dream, which was screened in the Un Certain Regard section at the 1994 Cannes Film Festival.

Álvaro de Oliveira Madaleno Sobrinho is an Angolan philanthropist, banker and businessman.

Karina Abrekkyzy Abdullina is a Kazakhstani singer and actress.

Jon Cypher is an American actor and singer.

Johannes Herber is a former German basketball player. In 2006, he completed a U.S. college career at West Virginia University. In America, he was generally known as Joe Herber.

Lara Della Mea is an Italian World Cup alpine ski racer.

Gao Xingjian is a Chinese émigré novelist, playwright, critic, painter, photographer, film director, and translator who in 2000 was awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature "for an oeuvre of universal validity, bitter insights and linguistic ingenuity." He is also a noted translator, screenwriter, stage director, and a celebrated painter. In 1998, Gao was granted French citizenship.

Christian Gerhaher is a German baritone and bass singer in opera and concert, particularly known as a Lieder singer.

Laura Howard is an English actress. She is probably best known for her role as Cully Barnaby in the long-running British crime-mystery Police procedural Midsomer Murders.