List of Famous people born in January

Michèle Bennett is the former First Lady of Haiti and the ex‑wife of former President of Haiti, Jean‑Claude Duvalier. They fled to France together when he resigned in 1986; they divorced in 1990.

Karim Aïnouz is a Brazilian film director and visual artist.

Maurice Compte is a Cuban American actor known for his roles as Gaff in Breaking Bad, Santiago "Big Evil" Flores in End of Watch, and as Colonel Carrillo in Narcos.

Sarah Viktoria Frick is a Swiss theatre and film actress. She has dual nationality with Liechtenstein. She left school at 16 to study at the Academy of Music and Theatre in Zurich and has gone on to a career celebrated for her performance as Puck in Shakespeare's A Midsummer Night's Dream, among many other roles, primarily at the Burgtheater in Vienna. She has won the Nestroy Theatre Prize several times.

Charles Hossein Zenderoudi is an Iranian painter, calligrapher and sculptor, known as a pioneer of Iranian modern art and as one of the earliest artists to incorporate Arabic calligraphy elements into his artwork. He is a associated as a pioneer of the Saqqa-Khaneh movement, a genre of neo-traditional modern art found in Iran that is rooted in a history of coffee-house paintings and Shia Islam visual elements. He lives in Paris and New York.

Özcan Mutlu in Kelkit, Gümüşhane Province, Turkey, is a Turkish-German politician of the Green Party.

Carme Elías i Boada is a Spanish film actress.

Luis Enrique Erro was a Mexican astronomer, politician, and educational reformer.

Lev Pavlovich Okhotin was a member of the Supreme Council of the Russian Fascist Party, founded by exiles in Manchuria.

Pape Maly Diamanka is a Senegalese professional footballer who plays for Spanish club Albacete Balompié on loan from Girona FC as a central midfielder.