List of Famous people born in January

Erling Kagge is a Norwegian explorer, publisher, author, lawyer, art collector, entrepreneur and politician.

Boris Podrecca is a Slovene-Italian architect and urban designer living in Vienna, Austria. Podrecca is considered by some critics a pioneer of postmodernism. With some of his early works, such as the neuro-physiological institute at Stahremberg Palace (1982), he took a new, more tolerant attitude towards historical architectural forms.

Chow Chung is a Hong Kong film and television actor, and a member of the South China Film Industry Workers Union. He was chair for three consecutive years, resigning in 2005.

Mayu Hamada is a female Japanese taekwondo practitioner. She participated in the 2012 and 2016 Summer Olympics.

Malick Thiaw is a German-Finnish professional footballer who plays as a centre-back for the German club Schalke 04.

Kiyoshi Miki was a Japanese philosopher, literary critic, scholar and university professor. He was an esteemed student of Nishida Kitarō and a prominent member of the Kyoto School.

Mehmet Akyüz is a Turkish professional footballer who plays as a forward for Adana Demirspor.

Irina Lazarevna S(ch)herbakova is a Russian historian of the modern age, an author and a founding member of Memorial. She won the Carl von Ossietsky Prize for Contemporary History and Politics in 2014 and the Goethe Medal in 2017. She has been studying Russia's modern history since the 1970s. "Memorial" was identified as one of Russia's "foreign agents" in 2016.

Stéphane Besle is a retired French footballer. He previously played for Swiss club Neuchâtel Xamax having signed with the team in summer 2005, along with teammate Matar Coly. Besle established himself as a first-choice central defender for Xamax and was the club's captain before being released in December 2011.

Yvonne Brosch is a German actor and director.