List of Famous people born on January 9th

Santiago Juan Gentiletti Selak is an Argentine professional footballer who plays as a defender for Argentine club Newell's Old Boys.

Shigeru So is a retired long-distance runner from Japan, who represented his native country at two Summer Olympics: 1976 and 1984. He won the 1985 edition of the Tokyo Marathon. His twin brother Takeshi So is also a retired Olympic marathoner, and finished fourth in Los Angeles, California (1984).

Alexandra Gottardo is an Indonesian model, film and television actress.

Levon Hakobi Ter-Petrosyan, also known by his initials LTP, is an Armenian politician. He was the first President of Armenia from 1991 to 1998. A senior researcher at the Matenadaran Institute of Ancient Manuscripts, he led the Karabakh movement for the unification of the Armenian-populated Nagorno-Karabakh with Armenia in 1988. After Armenia's independence from the Soviet Union in 1991, Ter-Petrosyan was elected president in October 1991 with overwhelming public support. He led the country through the First Nagorno-Karabakh War with neighboring Azerbaijan, during which Armenia supported the Republic of Artsakh in fighting against Azerbaijan.

Ademilson Braga Bispo Junior, known as Ademilson, is a Brazilian footballer who currently plays for China League One club Wuhan Three Towns as a forward. He has previously played for São Paulo in his homeland and Yokohama F. Marinos and Gamba Osaka in Japan.

John Broadus Watson was an American psychologist who popularized the scientific theory of behaviorism, establishing it as a psychological school. Watson advanced this change in the psychological discipline through his 1913 address at Columbia University, titled Psychology as the Behaviorist Views It. Through his behaviorist approach, Watson conducted research on animal behavior, child rearing, and advertising, as well as conducting the controversial "Little Albert" experiment and the Kerplunk experiment. He was also the editor of Psychological Review from 1910 to 1915. A Review of General Psychology survey, published in 2002, ranked Watson as the 17th most cited psychologist of the 20th century.

Shu Arai , born Zhou Xuan, is a Chinese-born table tennis player who represented Japan at the 2004 Summer Olympics.

Ousman Sonko is a former Gambian politician. He served as Interior Minister between 2006 and 2016 under the Gambian dictator Yahya Jammeh. During this period he is suspected of taking part in acts of torture, including in detention centers.

Pierre Combescot was a French journalist and writer. He worked for the Canard Enchaîné, under the pseudonym Luc Décygnes. He was also a columnist in Paris Match.

Teresa Jornet Ibars, also known as Saint Teresa of Jesus, was a Catalan Catholic professed religious and the founder of the Little Sisters of the Abandoned Elderly. Ibars was the great-niece of Francisco Palau and a friend and confidante of Saturnino López Novoa. Her dedication to the old and ill was noted and also the work of her sisters in Spain and later abroad.