List of Famous people born in January

Andrea Dettling is a Swiss Alpine skier. She was fifth in Super-G at the 2009 Alpine Skiing World Cup. She represented Switzerland at the 2010 Winter Olympics.

Lou Ye, born 1965, is a Chinese screenwriter-director who is commonly grouped with the "Sixth Generation" directors of Chinese cinema.

Mikishi Daimon is a Japanese politician of the Japanese Communist Party, a member of the House of Councillors in the Diet. A native of Kyoto, Kyoto and dropout of Kobe University, he was elected to the House of Councillors for the first time in 2001 after an unsuccessful run in 1998.

Mickaël Barreto is a French professional footballer who plays as an attacking midfielder for AC Ajaccio.

Frederico Marques Cunha is a Brazilian Catholic priest and fugitive, convicted of murdering a teenager in Portugal, as well as sexually abusing numerous children and adolescents. He escaped trial in 1998, and has been living as a free man in his native country ever since.

Shinji Iwata was a professional Japanese right-handed pitcher. He played for the Chunichi Dragons.

Baku Yumemakura is a Japanese science fiction and adventure writer. His works have sold more than 20 million copies in Japan spread across more than 280 titles. He is published in a variety of formats including feature films, television shows, movies and comic books.

Marla Olmstead is a painter of abstract art who by the age of four had caught international media attention for her work. Abstract artworks painted by her have been as large as five feet square and have sold for tens of thousands of US dollars. A 2005 60 Minutes II story on Olmstead that first brought her publicity led to speculation that the works supposedly created by Marla were in fact created in collaboration with her father, which was further examined in the 2007 documentary on her, My Kid Could Paint That.

Kim Man-il was the second son and child of North Korean leader Kim Il-sung and his first wife, Kim Jong-suk.

Laura María Tobón Yepes is a Colombian presenter, model, singer, and YouTuber.