List of Famous people born on January 8th

Francisco Javier Imbroda Ortiz was a Spanish basketball coach and politician. He was the sixth coach with the most games directed in the Liga ACB. He was born in Melilla, Spain. He served as a member of the Andalusian Parliament since 2018. He also served as the Regional Minister of Education and Sports since 2019.

Gillies MacKinnon is a Scottish film director, writer and painter. He attended the Glasgow School of Art where he studied mural painting. Following this he became an art teacher and cartoonist, and about this time he traveled with a nomadic tribe in the Sahara for six months. In the 1970s he studied at the Middlesex Polytechnic and in the 1980s in the National Film and Television School. He made a short film called Passing Glory as his graduation piece, a dour recreation of Glasgow in the 1950s and 1960s. It was premiered at the 1986 Edinburgh International Film Festival, where it won the first Scottish Film Prize.

Sebastián Eguren Ledesma is a Uruguayan former professional footballer who played mainly as a defensive midfielder. He started his career with Montevideo Wanderers in 1999, and went on to play professionally in Norway, Sweden, Spain, Paraguay, Brazil, and Argentina before retiring in 2016. He earned 57 caps for Uruguay between 2001 and 2013, and represented his country at the 2010 World Cup and two Copa América tournaments.

Lauren Hewett is an Australian former actress. She is best known for her role in Ocean Girl as Mera, Halfway Across the Galaxy and Turn Left as X, and also for her role as Lara Ritchie in The Echo of Thunder. She also starred as Kathy Morgan in Spellbinder: Land of the Dragon Lord.

Anna Yamada is a Japanese actress represented by Amuse.

Ieva Pope is a Latvian badminton player. She competed at the 2015 and 2019 European Games.