List of Famous people born in January

Charles Douglas Musselwhite is an American electric blues harmonica player and bandleader, one of the white bluesmen who came to prominence in the early 1960s, along with Mike Bloomfield and Paul Butterfield. He has often been identified as a "white bluesman". Musselwhite was reportedly the inspiration for Elwood Blues; the character played by Dan Aykroyd in the 1980 film, The Blues Brothers.

Tony Dreyfus was a member of the National Assembly of France from 1997 to 2012. He represented the city of Paris, and was a member of the Socialiste, radical, citoyen et divers gauche.

Tony Eion Brown is a former New Zealand rugby union footballer, who played mainly at first five-eighth. He is an assistant coach for the Japan national rugby union team, having previously been the head coach of Otago and the Highlanders in the Super Rugby competition.

Mark Selwyn Hadlow is an Australian-New Zealand actor and comedian. Hadlow is perhaps best known internationally for playing the roles of Harry in King Kong and Dori, a Dwarf, in The Hobbit series.

Françoise Morvan is a French writer who specialises in Breton history and culture.

Robert Ponger is an Austrian songwriter and record producer, most famous for his work with Austrian singer Falco.

Masaji Ogino is a volleyball player from Japan, who played for the Men's National Team in the 1990s and the 2000s. He ended up in sixteenth place at the 1998 World Championship.

Georg Winter is a German businessman, environmentalist and an advocate for sustainable business management.

Hisham Matar is an American born British-Libyan writer. His memoir of the search for his father, The Return, won the 2017 Pulitzer Prize for Biography or Autobiography and the 2017 PEN America Jean Stein Book Award. His debut novel In the Country of Men was shortlisted for the 2006 Man Booker Prize. Matar's essays have appeared in the Asharq al-Awsat, The Independent, The Guardian, The Times and The New York Times. His second novel, Anatomy of a Disappearance, was published to wide acclaim on 3 March 2011. He lives and writes in London.

Pablo Paulino Rosario is a Dutch professional footballer of Dominican descent who plays as a midfielder for Ligue 1 club Nice and the Netherlands national football team.