List of Famous people born on January 18th

Maulik Navin Pancholy is an American actor and author who is best known for his roles as Jonathan on 30 Rock, Baljeet Tjinder in Phineas and Ferb, Neal in the first season of Whitney, and as Sanjay Patel in both Weeds and Sanjay and Craig. His debut novel, The Best at It, is about a gay, Indian American boy coming into his own.

Ashleigh Monique Murray is an American actress and singer. She portrayed Josie McCoy, the lead singer of the band Josie and the Pussycats, on the CW television series Riverdale. Murray reprised this role in the Riverdale spin-off series Katy Keene, which premiered on The CW in 2020.

Rubén Miño Peralta is a Spanish professional footballer who plays for UD Logroñés as a goalkeeper.

Valentyna Oleksandrivna Semerenko, known also as Valya Semerenko and featuring in statistics as Valj Semerenko is a Ukrainian biathlete. She is Olympic and World champion, multiple World championships medalist and one of the most successful Ukrainian winter athletes.

Princess Marie Melita of Hohenlohe-Langenburg was the Duchess consort of Schleswig-Holstein as the wife of Wilhelm Friedrich, Duke of Schleswig-Holstein. She was the eldest daughter of Ernst II, Prince of Hohenlohe-Langenburg and his wife Princess Alexandra of Saxe-Coburg and Gotha.

Yuka Sato is a Japanese triathlete. She won a gold medal in the Girls' Triathlon event at the 2010 Summer Youth Olympics.

Timothy Alexander Chow is a Taiwanese professional footballer playing for Henan Jianye in the Chinese Super League. He has previously played for Wigan Athletic and Ross County.

Mark John Douglas Messier is a Canadian former professional ice hockey centre of the National Hockey League (NHL). He played a quarter of a century in the NHL (1979–2004) with the Edmonton Oilers, New York Rangers, and Vancouver Canucks. He also played professionally with the World Hockey Association (WHA)'s Indianapolis Racers and Cincinnati Stingers. He was the last former WHA player to be active in professional hockey, and the last active player who had played in the NHL in the 1970s. After his playing career he served as special assistant to the president and general manager of the Rangers.

Mikhail Pavlovich Shishkin is a Russian writer and the only author to have won the Russian Booker Prize (2000), the Russian National Bestseller (2005), and Big Book Prize (2010). His books have been translated into 30 languages. He also writes in German.

Lasse Sobiech is a German professional footballer who plays as a central defender for FC Zürich on loan from 1. FC Köln.