List of Famous people born in January
Marina Orsini
Marina Orsini C.M. is a Canadian actress.
Hasan Iğsız
Hasan Iğsız is a retired General in the Turkish Army. He was Commander of the First Army of Turkey from 2009 to 2010. He was formerly a defendant in the Internet Memorandum trial, where he was tried together with Turkey's former Chief of Staff, İlker Başbuğ. Later this trial was merged into the controversial Ergenekon trials. Iğsız was subsequently acquitted in 2016. The Ergenekon trials targeted a very heterogeneous group of people, merged different trials into one, and mobilized conspiracies tainted with fabricated evidence in the struggle to dominate Turkey's institutions.
Pia Zebadiah
Pia Zebadiah Bernadet is an Indonesian badminton player. She is the sister of men's doubles world and Olympic champion Markis Kido.
Hazza' al-Majali
Hazza' Barakat al-Majali (Arabic: هزاع بركات المجالي was two-time Prime Minister of Jordan. His first term lasted one week in 1955, his second term lasted from mid-1959 until his assassination.
Juan-David Nasio
Juan-David Nasio is an Argentinian psychiatrist, psychoanalyst and writer. He is one of the founders of Séminaires Psychanalytiques de Paris.
Bettina Stangneth
Bettina Stangneth is a German philosopher. Known for her work on antisemitism and National Socialism, she is the author of several books, including Eichmann before Jerusalem (2014), which won an NDR Kultur Sachbuchpreis in 2011 when it was first published in German.
Maria
Maria (マリア), born Ayaka Itō on January 29, 1987, is a Japanese pop singer signed under Universal Music Japan. She had been active in singing for several years before debuting as a solo artist in 2009. Maria plays electric guitar and writes her own lyrics.
Inka Martí
Inka Martí Kiemann is a Spanish journalist, editor, writer, and photographer, the wife of fellow publisher Jacobo Siruela and Countess consort of Siruela.
Matt Duffy
Matthew Michael Duffy is an American professional baseball third baseman in the Chicago Cubs organization. He played college baseball at Long Beach State. He has played in Major League Baseball (MLB) for the San Francisco Giants and Tampa Bay Rays.
Ali al-Sallabi
Dr. Ali Muhammad al-Sallabi, or al-Salabi is a Muslim historian, religious scholar and Islamist politician from Libya. He was arrested by the Gaddafi regime, then left Libya and studied Islam in Saudi Arabia and Sudan during the 1990s. He then studied in Qatar under Yusuf al-Qaradawi, the spiritual head of the international Muslim Brotherhood and returned to Libya during the 2011 overthrow of Gaddafi and distributed weapons, money and aid to Islamist groups in the country. His actions were criticized by members of the internationally recognized Libyan government under the National Transitional Council who he in turn criticized as being secular.