List of Famous people born on January 5th

Alba Ribas Benaiges is a Spanish actress born in Catalonia. She is best known for her role in The Corpse of Anna Fritz, in which she played the title role. In 2017, she appeared in the Netflix series Las Chicas Del Cable.

Tadashi Sawamura is a Japanese former kickboxer whose real name is Hideki Shiraha . He was one of the first popular participants in the sport, and enjoyed great fame throughout his career. He is sometimes credited for sustaining the early boom in the popularity of kickboxing. He has an exceptionally high knockout percentage of 94.60% in combat sports. For comparison, in heavyweight boxing the two highest knockout percentages are 87.76% by Rocky Marciano and 87.23% by Vitali Klitschko. Mike Tyson who became famous for his knockout power retired with a knockout percentage of 75.86%. Sawamura's knockout prowess earned him the nickname "The Demon of Kickboxing".

Fabiola Guajardo is a Mexican actress, model, author and musician, known for having competed in Nuestra Belleza Nuevo León 2007 finishing as the first runner up and being finalist on the National pageant of Nuestra Belleza Mexico in 2007.

Kazuhiko Hasegawa is a Japanese film director. He won the award for Best Director at the 1st Yokohama Film Festival for The Man Who Stole the Sun.

Benoît Vaugrenard is a French former road racing cyclist, who competed professionally for FDJeux.com and its successors between 2003 and 2019. He competed in 11 Grand Tours: six times in the Tour de France, three times in the Giro d'Italia(2004, 2016, and 2017) and twice in the Vuelta a España.

Blanca Delfina Soto Benavides is a Mexican actress, model and beauty pageant titleholder who was crowned Nuestra Belleza Mundo México 1997.

Forugh Farrokhzad was an influential Iranian poet and film director. She was a controversial modernist poet and an iconoclast, writing from a female point of view.

Pauline Vasseur, who performs under the mononym Pauline, is a French composer, songwriter and singer.

Tiago Emanuel da Silva Miranda, known professionally as Conan Osíris, is a Portuguese singer-songwriter. His stage name is based on the main character from Japanese series Future Boy Conan and the ancient Egyptian god Osiris.

Maki Tsukada born January 5, 1982) is a Japanese female judoka, who was born in Shimotsuma, Ibaraki Prefecture. She won the Women's +78 kg category gold medal at the Athens Olympic in 2004 and the silver medal at the Beijing Olympics.