List of Famous people born on January 16th

Han Li is a Chinese badminton player from Tai'an, Shandong. In 2003, she was elected to join the Chinese national youth team, and two years later she joined the national senior team. In 2006, she won the gold medal at the World Junior Championships in the mixed team event. In 2012, she won two Grand Prix Gold title at the Australia Open and Indonesian Masters tournament. In 2013, she won the women's singles gold medal at the East Asian Games in Tianjin.

Edith Frank was the mother of Holocaust diarist Anne Frank, and her older sister Margot. She was a prisoner during the Holocaust at Auschwitz-Birkenau concentration camp, where she died from starvation.

Hansamu Yama Pranata is an Indonesian professional footballer who plays as a centre-back for Liga 1 club Bhayangkara and the Indonesia national team.

Anastasia Nikolayevna Grishina is a former Russian artistic gymnast. She was a member of the silver medal winning Russian team at the 2012 Summer Olympics, and the 2013 European all around bronze medalist.

Daniela Escobar Duncan is a Brazilian actress, television presenter and voice actress.

Anja Siegesmund is a German politician of Alliance 90/The Greens. Since 2014, she has served as Minister of the Environment in the state government of Thuringia. Since 2015, she has also been Second Deputy Minister-President of Thuringia. From 2009 to 2014 she was leader of the Greens parliamentary group in the Landtag of Thuringia. She was a member of the Landtag from 2009 to 2015, then again from 2019 to 2020.

Louisa So Yuk Wa is a Hong Kong actress in drama and TV series. She is considered the "Cooking Mistress" of Hong Kong after winning the comedy cooking show Beautiful Cooking. In August 2009, she travelled by train across the United States, during which time she met Guardian journalist Douglas Rogers. After a brief break in 2009, she unexpectedly returned to acting in 2014 as the protagonist in the TVB drama Rear Mirror, a role that brought her wide critical acclaim, after the show received high viewership ratings.

Alain Jessua was a French film director and screenwriter. He directed ten films between 1956 and 1997. He worked as assistant director for Jacques Becker on the set of Casque d'or, with Max Ophüls for Madame de... and Lola Montès and with Marcel Carné on Wasteland. Léon la lune his first short film won the influential Prix Jean Vigo in 1957. He directed first feature film in 1963 La vie à l'envers that won Best First Film at Venice Film Festival, in 1964.

Juliet Berto, born Annie Jamet, was a French actress, director and screenwriter.

Daiki Niwa is a Japanese football player who plays for Sanfrecce Hiroshima.