List of Famous people born on January 8th

David Christopher Self is an American screenwriter best known as the author of the screenplays for the films The Haunting, Road to Perdition, and The Wolfman.

Eric Wohlberg is a Canadian former professional racing cyclist. He competed for his native country at three consecutive Summer Olympics, starting in 1996. Wohlberg won two medals at the 1998 Commonwealth Games in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia. He also won the Tour of the Gila in 2000. He is also a multi-time Canadian National Time Trial Champion. He still races as an amateur against regional professionals in Northern California & Nevada. He is a directeur sportif (DS) for Rally Cycling.

Aleksander "Sacha" Burdo is a Russian actor. He has appeared in films including The Science of Sleep (2006) by Michel Gondry and Western (1997) by Manuel Poirier. He also starred in L'étoile du soldat in 2006, earning acclaim for his portrayal of a Russian conscript in the Soviet Afghanistan war.

Patrick Friou is a former French racing cyclist. He rode in four editions of the Tour de France between 1978 and 1981.

Mark Alan Knight, also known as TDK and Madfiddler, is a British musician, video game music composer and sound designer. He started out writing chiptune and module file music in the Amiga demoscene, and began his games industry career as a composer in 1992. He continued until 2000 when he moved to sound design, and since 2014 has had a split role as a sound designer and composer.

Peter David Latham was a cycling competitor for New Zealand. He competed in the team pursuit at the 2004 Summer Olympics, where New Zealand finished tenth. In 2005 Latham won the bronze medal in the Under 23 Individual Time Trial at the Road World Championships in Madrid. He competed at the 2006 Commonwealth Games in Melbourne where along with Tim Gudsell, Hayden Godfrey and Marc Ryan he won a bronze medal in the Team pursuit.

Ashraf Barhom is an Arab-Israeli actor from Tarshiha, in Galilee, Israel. He has starred in The Kingdom, Paradise Now, By Any Means and The Syrian Bride.