List of Famous people born in January

Shen Yueyue is a Chinese politician, former regional official, and is the current President of the All-China Women's Federation, and a Vice-Chairwoman of the National People's Congress Standing Committee. In her early career she served in Zhejiang province, before going to Anhui province and later the Central Organization Department.

Raffaella Fico is an Italian showgirl, singer and model.

Shimako Satō is a Japanese screenwriter and film director.

Artem Eduardovich Novikov is a Kyrgyzstani politician, who is the First Deputy Prime Minister of Kyrgyzstan. On 15 November 2020, he became the acting Prime Minister of Kyrgyzstan, as Sadyr Japarov's official powers in office are suspended pending the results of the January 2021 presidential election.

Satria Tama Hardiyanto is an Indonesian professional footballer who plays as a goalkeeper.

Gary Faye Locke is an American politician and diplomat who served as the 10th United States ambassador to China (2011–14). He was previously the 21st governor of Washington (1997–2005) and served in the Obama administration as United States Secretary of Commerce (2009–11). Locke is the first governor in the continental United States of East Asian descent and the only Chinese American ever to have served as a governor of any state. He was also the first Chinese American to serve as the U.S. ambassador to China.

Hamida al-Attas, born A'alia Ghanem, is the mother of Osama bin Laden. She came from a Syrian family of citrus farmers, with two brothers and another sister, living in two small coastal villages, Omraneya and Babryon, outside the port of Latakia. She grew up in a family of Alawites, an offshoot of Shia Islam. At age 22, she married Mohammed bin Awad bin Laden in Latakia in 1956 and moved to Saudi Arabia with her husband. She was the eleventh wife of Mohammed bin Awad bin Laden. Her husband had many wives and he divorced most of them, as having only four wives at once was in accordance with Muslim law. It has been reported that she was a concubine rather than wife of Mohammed bin Awad bin Laden. She was more cosmopolitan than Mohammed's first three Wahhabi Saudi wives.

Eduard "Edi" Glieder is a former Austrian football player.

Dejan Antonić is a football manager and former player.

José Ignacio Pallas Martínez is a Uruguayan football manager and former player who played as a centre back. He is the current manager of Fénix.