List of Famous people born in January

Patrick Erras is a German professional footballer who plays as a midfielder for Holstein Kiel.

Kumar Ram Narain Karthikeyan is a racing driver who was the first Formula One driver from India.

Sipho Mchunu is a Zulu musician best known for his partnership with 'white Zulu' Johnny Clegg in the band Juluka from the 1970s to the 1990s. Mchunu's Zulu compositions, vocals and guitar work brought traditional Zulu styles such as maskanda and mbaqanga to a wider crossover audience both in South Africa and internationally.

Fabián Núñez Napoles is a Mexican luchador, better known by the ring name Rey Escorpión. He is currently working for Lucha Libre AAA Worldwide (AAA), where he portrays a rudo or bad guy character. He is former the AAA World Tag Team Champions with El Texano Jr. and he is currently in his first reign as one third of the AAA World Trios Champions with La Hiedra and Texano Jr. He worked for Consejo Mundial de Lucha Libre (CMLL) from 2009 to 2016 and prior to that worked for Lucha Libre AAA Worldwide (AAA) in 2008, where he was known as Escorpión Negro. Núñez ring name is Spanish for "Scorpion King".

Samira Merai Friaa is a Tunisian doctor and politician who served as Minister of Public Health from 2016 to 2017.

Lasse Sobiech is a German professional footballer who plays as a central defender for FC Zürich on loan from 1. FC Köln.

Françoise Lépine is a French actress.

Teo Nie Ching is a Malaysian politician who served as the Deputy Minister of Education in the Pakatan Harapan (PH) administration under former Prime Minister Mahathir Mohamad and former Ministers Maszlee Malik from July 2018 to his resignation in January 2020 and Mahathir himself in an acting capacity briefly from January to February 2020, from July 2018 to the collapse of the PH administration in February 2020. She has served as the Member of Parliament (MP) for Kulai since May 2013 and Serdang from March 2008 to May 2013. She is a member of the Democratic Action Party (DAP), a component party of the PH opposition coalition.

Kōsuke Morita is a Japanese experimental nuclear physicist, known as the leader of the Japanese team that discovered nihonium. He currently holds a joint appointment as a professor at Kyushu University’s Graduate School of Science and as director of the Super Heavy Element Research Group at Riken's Nishina Center for Accelerator-Based Science.