List of Famous people born on January 9th

Laura Basuki is a Germany-born Indonesian model and actress of mixed Javanese, Chinese and Vietnamese descent.

Terence David Hands was an English theatre director. He founded the Liverpool Everyman Theatre and ran the Royal Shakespeare Company for thirteen years during one of the company's most successful periods; he spent 25 years in all with the RSC. He also saved Clwyd Theatr Cymru from closure and turned it into the most successful theatre in Wales in his seventeen years as Artistic Director. He received several Olivier, Tony and Molière awards and nominations for directing and lighting.

Wang Tuoh was a Taiwanese writer, public intellectual, literary critic, and politician. He was born in Badouzi, then a small fishing village near the northern port city of Keelung. His name was originally Wang Hung-chiu (王紘久).

Maximiliano Samuel Romero is an Argentine footballer who plays as a centre forward for Velez Sarsfield, on loan from PSV Eindhoven in the Eredivisie and their youth team Jong PSV in the Eerste Divisie.

Josef Bulva was a Czech pianist.

João Cabral de Melo Neto, also known as Joãozinho Cabral was a Brazilian poet and diplomat, and one of the most influential writers in late Brazilian modernism. He was awarded the 1990 Camões Prize and the 1992 Neustadt International Prize for Literature, the only Brazilian poet to receive such award to date. He was considered until his death a perennial competitor for the Nobel Prize in Literature.

Can Maxim Mutaf is a Turkish professional basketball player for Bursaspor of the Turkish Basketball League (BSL).

Mélissa Michelle Marjolec Laveaux is an independent Canadian singer-songwriter and guitarist of Haitian descent previously signed to No Format!. Her music has been described as a mix of roots, folk, and blues using her signature percussive finger-style guitar stylings and soulful vocals. In 2006, Laveaux released the first full-length album of her own songs, which she co-produced with percussionist Rob Reid and Lisa Patterson of Imaginit Music Studios. Laveaux has received critical praise from her peers in such magazines as Colorlines and is a Songs from the Heart recipient from the 2006 Ontario Council of Folk Festivals' conference in the World Music category for penning "Koud'lo".

Fumie Mizusawa is a Japanese actress, voice actress and novelist. She is represented by Aoni Production.

Suh Yun-bok was a South Korean marathoner, who is best known as the winner of the 1947 Boston Marathon.