List of Famous people born on January 18th

Bruno Reichart is a retired German cardiothoracic surgeon who performed Germany's first successful heart transplant in 1981 and its first combined heart–lung transplant in 1983.

Alexander Antonovich Solodukha - Belarusian singer.

Haruki Ihara was a Japanese Nippon Professional Baseball player. He played for the Nishitetsu Lions, and continued his entire career with them.

Sergé "Jojo" Mayer is a Swiss virtuoso drummer born in Zürich and currently residing in New York City.

Ilyas Magomedovich Kurkaev is a Russian volleyball player, member of the Russia men's national volleyball team and Russian club Lokomotiv Novosibirsk. He participated at the 2017 European Championship.

Mickaël Barreto is a French professional footballer who plays as an attacking midfielder for AC Ajaccio.

Felix Luz is a German former professional footballer who played as a striker. His career was hampered by suffering various knee injuries in his career.

Anthony Giddens, Baron Giddens is an English sociologist who is known for his theory of structuration and his holistic view of modern societies. He is considered to be one of the most prominent modern sociologists and the author of at least 34 books, published in at least 29 languages, issuing on average more than one book every year. In 2007, Giddens was listed as the fifth most-referenced author of books in the humanities. He has academic appointments in approximately twenty different universities throughout the world and has received numerous honorary degrees.

José Manuel Romay Beccaría is a Spanish lawyer and politician. During his political life, he has been regional minister in several occasions in the Regional Government of Galicia, Member of the Congress of Deputies and Senator. The highest and most important offices that he held were Health Minister of Spain and two times President of the Council of State.

Ihor Markov is a Ukrainian entrepreneur, founder and chairman of the Rodina Party and is a former deputy of Ukrainian parliament as a member of the Party of Regions faction. Markov is wanted in Ukraine in connection with riots in Odessa that took place on 2 September 2007. He was arrested in Italy's Sanremo in August 2015. In February 2016 Italy refused Markov's extradition to Ukraine.