List of Famous people born in January
Gabriel Macht
Gabriel Swann Macht is an American actor and film producer best known for playing the character Harvey Specter on the USA Network series Suits, as well as for his role as The Spirit in the eponymous 2008 film adaptation.
Angus Brayshaw
Angus Brayshaw is a professional Australian rules footballer playing for the Melbourne Football Club in the Australian Football League (AFL). A midfielder, 1.87 metres tall and weighing 91 kilograms (201 lb), Brayshaw is capable of contributing as both an inside and outside midfielder. He has strong family connections in Australian sport whereby his father, Mark Brayshaw, is a former North Melbourne player and the current AFL Coaches' Association Chief Executive Officer, his uncle, James Brayshaw, is a former state cricketer, former North Melbourne chairman and a sport media personality, and his grandfather, Ian Brayshaw, is a former state cricketer and footballer with the Claremont Football Club.
Erick Pulgar
Erick Antonio Pulgar Farfán is a Chilean professional footballer who plays for Serie A side Fiorentina. Mainly a defensive midfielder, he can also play as a defender.
Kitty Kat
Katharina Löwel, better known under her stage name Kitty Kat or Kitten Ket, is a German rapper and singer. She became famous as an Aggro Berlin member, where she was signed from 2006 to 2009.
Hirofumi Arai
Hirofumi Arai is a third-generation Zainichi Korean former actor.
Hsieh Su-wei
Hsieh Su-wei is a Taiwanese professional tennis player who represents Chinese Taipei in international competition, and is the current world No. 1 in doubles.
Tetsuro Fukuyama
Tetsuro Fukuyama is a politician of the Constitutional Democratic Party of Japan, a member of the House of Councillors in the Diet. He is currently the secretary general of the CDP. A native of Tokyo, he graduated from Doshisha University and received a master's degree from Kyoto University. After running unsuccessfully for the House of Representatives in 1996, he was elected to the House of Councillors for the first time in 1998.
Zac Goldsmith
Frank Zacharias Robin Goldsmith, Baron Goldsmith of Richmond Park is a British politician and journalist who serves as Minister of State for Pacific and the Environment. He was Member of Parliament (MP) for Richmond Park from 2017 to 2019, previously holding the seat between 2010 and 2016. A member of the Conservative Party, he was its candidate at the 2016 London mayoral election, which he lost to Sadiq Khan of the Labour Party. Ideologically characterised as having liberal and libertarian views, Goldsmith is known for his support for environmentalism, localism and Brexit.
Alex Wood
Robert Alexander Wood is an American professional baseball pitcher for the San Francisco Giants of Major League Baseball (MLB). He previously played for the Atlanta Braves, Los Angeles Dodgers and Cincinnati Reds.
Alicia Garza
Alicia Garza is an American civil rights activist and writer known for co-founding the international Black Lives Matter movement. She has organized around the issues of health, student services and rights, rights for domestic workers, ending police brutality, anti-racism, and violence against transgender and gender non-conforming people of color. Her editorial writing has been published by The Guardian, The Nation, Rolling Stone, and Truthout. She currently directs Special Projects at the National Domestic Workers Alliance and is the Principal at the Black Futures Lab.