List of Famous people born on January 5th

Laura María Tobón Yepes is a Colombian presenter, model, singer, and YouTuber.

Richard Andreas Werner is a German banking and development economist who is a university professor at De Montfort University.

José Ignacio Pallas Martínez is a Uruguayan football manager and former player who played as a centre back. He is the current manager of Fénix.

Leila Meskhi is a retired Georgian professional tennis player.

America Athene Campbell is a Canadian-American actress, singer and model best known as a member of the band Soluna, for her roles in the films Bitch Slap (2009), Friday the 13th (2009) and Maniac (2012) as well as starring in the Broadway musical Spider-Man: Turn Off the Dark.

Karl Allgöwer is a German former footballer who played as a midfielder.

Rostislav Borisovich Plechko is a Russian professional boxer who currently holds the Russian and WBA Asia heavyweight titles.

Zhou Fengsuo is a Chinese human rights activist, investor, and former student leader during the Tiananmen Square protests of 1989. He was listed number 5 on the government's most wanted and forced into exile in the United States over his role in the student movement. Zhou attained his MBA degree from University of Chicago Booth School of Business and had been working in the finance industry in recent years. He is currently the president of Humanitarian China and Co-founder of the China Human Rights Accountability Center.

Janica Kostelić is a former World Cup alpine ski racer and four-time Olympic gold medalist from Croatia. In addition to the Olympics, she won five gold medals at the World Championships. In World Cup competition, she won thirty individual races, three overall titles, three slalom titles, and four combined titles. Kostelic's accomplishments in professional skiing have led some commentators, writers, and fellow ski racers to regard her as the greatest female ski racer of all time.

Jorge de Moura Xavier, commonly known as Jorginho, is a Brazilian footballer who plays as an attacking midfielder for Athletico Paranaense.