List of Famous people born in January

Marwan Hamed is a young Egyptian film director. He is the son of author Wahid Hamed and journalist Zeinab Sweidan. His debut was a short film entitled Li Li followed by a major feature film entitled The Yacoubian Building based on a novel by Alaa Al Aswany and starring Adel Emam.

Ouda Tarabin is an Israeli Bedouin who was imprisoned in Egypt for 15 years on suspicion of spying for Israel after illegally crossing the Israeli-Egyptian border.

Liao Guoxun is a Chinese politician currently serving as mayor and deputy party chief of Tianjin. He is of Tujia people ethnicity.

Sarah Utterback is an American actress, most notable for her role as Nurse Olivia Harper on ABC's medical drama series Grey's Anatomy. She is also a film and theater producer.

Keiichi Tanaami is one of the leading pop artists of postwar Japan, and has been active as multi-genre artist since the 1960s as a graphic designer, illustrator, video artist and fine artist.

Eva María Garrido García, known professionally as Eva Yerbabuena, is a Spanish flamenco dancer. She formed her own dance company in 1998 and won Spain's National Dance Award in 2001. She is considered one of flamenco's leading performers.

Margarete Bause is a German politician of Alliance 90/The Greens. She was a member of the Landtag of Bavaria from 1986 to 1990 and from 2003 to 2017. In 2017, she was elected a member of the Bundestag, where she is the Green party group's spokeswoman for human rights and humanitarian aid.

Gerardo Ameli is an Argentine football manager. He is currently the manager of Ayacucho FC in the Peruvian Primera División.

Iván Balliu Campeny is an Albanian professional footballer who plays as a right back for UD Almería.

Benoît Pelletier is lawyer, academic, and politician in the Canadian province of Quebec. He was a Liberal member of the National Assembly of Quebec from 1998 to 2008 and was a prominent cabinet minister in the government of Jean Charest. He is best known for promoting the concept of "asymmetric federalism," wherein Quebec nationalism may be incorporated into a decentralized Canadian federal structure.