List of Famous people born in January

Ni Dahong is a Chinese actor best known for his roles as Sima Yi in the historical television series Three Kingdoms, based on the classical novel Romance of the Three Kingdoms by Luo Guanzhong; and Su Daqiang in family drama All Is Well.

Juan Antonio Gossaín Abdallah is a Colombian radio national news director, chief editor, and journalist, as well as a novelist. He wrote the novel "The Ballad of María Abdala." He is well known for directing the RCN Radio Network from around 1984 to 2010 and during that time had his own radio program that was regularly broadcast in Colombia. Gossaín was a two-time winner in the radio journalism category of the Premio Nacional de Periodismo Simón Bolívar, a national award for Colombian journalism.

Stephanie A. Romanov is an American model and actress, best known for playing Lilah Morgan on Angel.

John Jairo Ruiz Barrantes is a Costa Rican footballer who plays for Herediano.

Carole Franck is a French actress.

Hendrik Bolz, better known by his stage name Testo, is a German rapper who is signed to the Hamburg label Buback. Together with the rapper grim104 he forms the hip-hop duo Zugezogen Maskulin.

Patrick Ittrich is a German football referee who is based in Hamburg. He referees for Mümmelmannsberger SV of the Hamburg Football Association.

Rauno August Aaltonen, also known as "The Rally Professor", is a Finnish former professional rally driver who competed in the World Rally Championship throughout the 1970s.

Huang Dongping is a Chinese badminton player.

Morio Matsui is a Japanese artist who has lived and worked in Corsica, France, since 1998.