List of Famous people born on January 15th
Edgar Sosa
Édgar Sosa is a Dominican-American professional basketball player for Zamalek of the Egyptian Basketball Super League. He played college basketball for Louisville.
Karita Bekkemellem
Karita Bekkemellem is a Norwegian politician. She belongs to the Norwegian Labour Party, where she leads the women's network.
Patsy Fagan
Patsy Fagan is an Irish former professional snooker player. Having been runner-up in the 1974 English Amateur Championship, he turned professional in October 1976. He experienced early success with victories at the 1977 UK Championship and the 1977 Dry Blackthorn Cup but following a car accident, developed a psychological block when using the rest which affected his playing and he did not win another title. He lost his professional status in 1989 following a 2–9 playoff defeat by Brady Gollan and now works as a snooker coach. His highest career ranking was 11, in 1978/79.
Michel Dantin
Michel Dantin is a French politician who served as a Member of the European Parliament for the South-East France constituency from 2009 until 2019. In addition, he has been the mayor of Chambéry from 2014 to 2020. He is a member of the Republicans.
Rezső Kókai
Rezső Kókai was a Hungarian composer and musicologist.
Rinaldo Moresco
Rinaldo Moresco is an Italian former professional road cyclist. Professional from 1950 to 1956, he had several successes during his career, including winning the Giro dell'Appennino in 1951 and the Giro di Toscana the following year.
Alisa Agafonova
Alisa Alexandrovna Agafonova is a former competitive ice dancer. She is best known for her partnership with Alper Uçar. Representing Turkey, they competed at two Winter Olympics and won eight international medals, including silver at the 2011 Winter Universiade and three medals on the ISU Challenger Series. They skated in the final segment at six European Championships and four World Championships.
Sofía Morandi
Mikhail Alshibay
Thilini Jayasinghe
Thilini Sudhara Jayasinghe is a Sri Lankan badminton player. Born in Peradeniya, Jayasinghe started playing badminton at age of 9, and has joined the national team in 2000. She attended Mahamaya College and was named Best Sports Woman in 2004. In 2006 and 2010, she competed at the Asian and Commonwealth Games. Jayasinghe also competed for Sri Lanka at the 2008 and 2012 Summer Olympics in the women's singles event. She is the first woman badminton player to have ever represented Sri Lanka at the Olympic Games.