List of Famous people born on January 5th

Ben Wu, also known as Wu SzuShien, is a Taiwanese singer, actor and television host.

Phillip Howard Dorsett II is an American football wide receiver for the Seattle Seahawks of the National Football League (NFL). He played college football for the University of Miami Hurricanes, and was drafted by the Indianapolis Colts in the first round of the 2015 NFL Draft.

Mélanie Bernier is a French actress. She has appeared in several films, such as L'Assaut (2011), directed by Julien Leclerq, relating the hijacking of an Air France A300 in December 1994, and also in several television productions. Bernier was born in Grasse, France, and grew up in Veigné, Indre-et-Loire. She began acting at a young age.

Jason Mitchell is an American actor. He is best known for portraying rapper Eazy-E in the 2015 biopic Straight Outta Compton. In 2017, he starred in the blockbuster Kong: Skull Island, as well as dramas Detroit and Mudbound.

Sophie Karmasin is an opinion researcher who was Minister for Families and Youth of Austria for four years.

Nikola Kalinić is a Croatian professional footballer who plays as a striker for Italian club Hellas Verona.

Kalyan Singh is a former Governor of Rajasthan and former Chief Minister of Uttar Pradesh in India, belonging to Bharatiya Janata Party.

Peter René Baumann, better known under his stage name DJ BoBo, is a Swiss singer-songwriter, rapper, dancer, and music producer. He has sold 14 million records worldwide and has released 12 studio albums as well as a few compilation albums which have included his previous hits in a reworked format. BoBo has also released as many as 34 singles to date, some of which have charted high not only in German speaking countries, but also in other European territories.

Uday Chopra is a Bollywood actor, producer, screenwriter and assistant director. He is the son of the late Yash Chopra and brother of Aditya Chopra. His sister-in-law is the actress Rani Mukerji and his cousins are film director Karan Johar and film producer Vidhu Vinod Chopra. Chopra worked as an assistant director on a number of his father's and brother's films under the Yash Raj Films banner. Chopra is the owner-manager (CEO) of YRF Entertainment and manager of Yash Raj Films along with his mother Pamela Chopra and his brother Aditya Chopra, who owns the company.

Richard Michael DeWine, known as Mike DeWine, is an American politician and attorney serving as the 70th governor of Ohio since 2019. A member of the Republican Party, DeWine previously served as Ohio Attorney General from 2011 to 2019, United States Senator from 1995 to 2007, and Lieutenant Governor of Ohio under George Voinovich from 1991 until 1994.