List of Famous people born in January

Yang Yong-eun, also called Y. E. Yang, is a South Korean professional golfer currently playing on the PGA Tour, where he has won twice, including most notably the 2009 PGA Championship where he came from behind to defeat Tiger Woods.

Tsutomu Hanabusa is a Japanese film director.

Takeshi So is a retired long-distance runner from Japan, who represented his native country at the 1984 Summer Olympics in Los Angeles, California. He won the 1976 edition of the Košice Peace Marathon in Czechoslovakia. His twin brother Shigeru So is also a retired Olympic marathoner.

Christian Synaeghel is a French retired professional football midfielder.

Wolf Bachofner is an Austrian stage and film actor.

Harald Hauswald is a German photographer.

Ghanim Muhammad Al-Muftah is a Qatari YouTuber and philanthropist with caudal regression syndrome. As of 2017, he was Qatar's youngest entrepreneur at 15.

Kenneth Vermeer is a Dutch footballer who plays as goalkeeper for Major League Soccer club Los Angeles FC.

Christian Chelman is a Belgian magician born in 1957. He specializes in close-up magic, card magic, mentalism, bizarre magic, storytelling magic and fantastic illusionism.

Yuri Gurski is a Belarusian IT entrepreneur, founder of a number of start-ups subsequently acquired by Facebook, Mail.ru Group, Google and Israeli billionaire Teddy Sagi. In 2016, GoalEurope called Gurski.