List of Famous people born on January 16th

Amahiko Satō is a Japanese professional shogi player, ranked 9-dan. He is a former Meijin title holder.

Paulo Roberto de Freitas, best known as Bebeto, was a Brazilian volleyball coach and football manager. He was the president of Botafogo FR football club.

Abraham Serfaty was an internationally prominent Moroccan dissident, militant, and political activist, who was imprisoned for years by King Hassan II of Morocco, for his political actions in favor of democracy, during the Years of Lead. He paid a high price for such actions: fifteen months living underground, seventeen years of imprisonment and eight years of exile. He returned to Morocco in September 1999.

Joseph J. Himmel, S.J. was an American Catholic priest and Jesuit. For much of his early life, he was a missionary throughout the northeast United States and retreat master. Later in life, he was president of Gonzaga College and Georgetown University in Washington, D.C.

Chinmoy Roy (1940-2019) was a Bengali Indian male comic actor. He was famous for his comic roles in Bengali movies, though his versatility has allowed him to play a variety of roles.

Brenner Souza da Silva, commonly known as Brenner, is a Brazilian professional footballer who plays as a forward for Major League Soccer club FC Cincinnati.

Aníbal Gaviria Correa is a Colombian politician who has served as the mayor of Medellín, the second-largest city in Colombia and the capital of the department of Antioquia. Beforehand, Gaviria was the Governor of Antioquia and served as a visiting scholar at University of California, Berkeley. In 2019, he was elected again for Governor of Antioquia, for the 2020-2023 term.

Zulkifli Mohamad Al-Bakri is a Malaysian Islamic ulama and mufti. He has served as the Minister in the Prime Minister's Department in charge of Religious Affairs in the Perikatan Nasional (PN) administration under Prime Minister Muhyiddin Yassin and Senator since March 2020. Prior to his appointment as a Minister, he served as the 7th Mufti of the Federal Territories from June 2014.

Susan Ahn Cuddy was the first female gunnery officer in the United States Navy. She was the eldest daughter of Korean independence activist Ahn Chang-ho and Helen Ahn, the first married Korean couple to emigrate to the United States in 1902. She joined the Navy in 1942 and served until 1946, reaching the rank of lieutenant. She was the first Asian-American woman to join the U.S. Navy.

Max Joseph is an American filmmaker and television host.