List of Famous people born on January 8th

Sara Mohmand is a Pakistani badminton player.

Trie Utami Sari or also known as Trie Utami or Iie is an Indonesian singer, composer and pianist. former singer of the group Krakatau, she joined the group Rumpies since the late 2000s.

Koichi Hamada is the Tuntex Professor Emeritus of Economics at Yale University, where he specializes in the Japanese economy and international economics. Hamada also serves as economic adviser to Japan's Prime Minister Shinzo Abe and is credited as one of the key architects of Abenomics, economic policies based upon "three arrows" of monetary easing, fiscal stimulus and structural reform. From January 2001 to July 2002, Hamada served as the first president of the Economic and Social Research Institute of the Cabinet Office of the Japanese Government. At one time Hamada was also a contender to head the WTO.

Ryō Kurusu was an officer in the Imperial Japanese Army. He is noted for being the only Eurasian person to be commemorated in Japan's Yasukuni Shrine.