List of Famous people born in January
Polo G
Taurus Tremani Bartlett, known professionally as Polo G, is an American rapper, singer, songwriter, and record executive. He rose to prominence in 2018 with his single "Finer Things". In 2019, he gained mainstream fame with his single "Pop Out" featuring Lil Tjay which peaked at number 11 on the Billboard Hot 100. The singles were included on his debut studio album, Die a Legend (2019), which peaked at number 6 on the US Billboard 200 and went on to be certified RIAA Platinum. Bartlett's second studio album, The Goat (2020), peaked at number 2 on the US Billboard 200 and included ten Hot 100 charting singles.
Ayo Dosunmu
Quamdeen "Ayo" Dosunmu is an American college basketball player for the Illinois Fighting Illini of the Big Ten Conference.
George Fan
George Fan is an American video game designer who currently works as the creative director of All Yes Good. He is known for designing Plants vs. Zombies (2009) whilst working at PopCap Games, in addition to developing Insaniquarium (2001) and Octogeddon (2018). Before going into game design, Fan graduated from the University of California, Berkeley, in 2000 with a degree in computer science. After graduating, he worked under Arcade Planet to develop games for their website, Prizegames.com. He eventually formed Flying Bear Entertainment and created Insaniquarium, which became a finalist for the 2002 Independent Games Festival. He then joined Blizzard Entertainment and worked there while simultaneously developing Insaniquarium further for PopCap Games, releasing the "Deluxe" edition in 2004.
Demario Davis
Demario Davis is an American football linebacker for the New Orleans Saints of the National Football League (NFL). He was drafted by the New York Jets in the third round of the 2012 NFL Draft. He played college football at Arkansas State.
Subrahmanyam Jaishankar
Subrahmanyam Jaishankar is an Indian diplomat and politician who is the current Minister of External Affairs of the Government of India since 31 May 2019. He is a member of the Bharatiya Janata Party and is a Member of Parliament in the Rajya Sabha since 5 July 2019, representing Gujarat. He has previously served as the Foreign Secretary from January 2015 to January 2018.
Ben Garrison
Benjamin R. Garrison is an American alt-right political cartoonist and artist. His cartoons are popular with the alt-right and with believers in the QAnon conspiracy theory, because they depict these ideologies approvingly and promote them. A number of his cartoons have been controversial; they have been widely characterized as sexist, racist, Islamophobic, anti-vaccine and antisemitic by various media commentators, including by the Anti-Defamation League. They have also been criticized for attempting to deny climate change, promoting attempts to overturn the 2020 United States presidential election, and opposing the ”deep state”. His cartoons often lionize American conservative figures and politicians such as former President Donald Trump and Rand Paul, and demonize liberal, moderate, and Never Trump movement figures such as President Joe Biden and Hillary Clinton. Some alt-right activists have edited his comics to incorporate antisemitic content, including the antisemitic "Happy Merchant" caricature.
Logan Lerman
Logan Wade Lerman is an American actor, known for playing the title role in the fantasy-adventure Percy Jackson films. He appeared in commercials in the mid-1990s, before starring in the series Jack & Bobby (2004–2005) and the movies The Butterfly Effect (2004) and Hoot (2006). Lerman gained further recognition for his roles in the western 3:10 to Yuma, the thriller The Number 23, the comedy Meet Bill, and 2009's Gamer and My One and Only. He subsequently played d'Artagnan in 2011's The Three Musketeers, starred in the coming-of-age dramas The Perks of Being a Wallflower (2012), Indignation (2016) and The Vanishing of Sidney Hall (2017), and had major roles in the 2014 films Noah and Fury. In 2020, he returned to television with the series Hunters.
Miki Nakatani
Miki Nakatani is a Japanese actress and singer. She is most known for her appearance in the 1998 Japanese supernatural psychological horror film Ring.
Allison Williams
Allison Williams is a former sportscaster with ESPN and former host for select pregame/postgame shows for Marlins Live. She did field reporting with play-by-play man Rich Waltz and color commentator Tommy Hutton.
Tyson Yoshi
Tyson Yoshi is a Hong Kong rapper, singer, and songwriter. He is an independent artist and was formerly part of the Hip Hop and R&B label Greytone Music (灰階音樂). He released his first official song “TO MY QUEEN” in 2018. In July 2019, he released "Christy", which was his first song that surpassed 1 million views on Youtube. His first album 1st was then released in 2019. He is one of Hong Kong's most well known hip hop artist and rapper with over 2 million streams on Spotify in more than 100 countries in 2019, one of the highest of any Hong Kong artists.