List of Famous people born on January 21st

Alexander McLeish is a Scottish professional football manager and former player. Born in Glasgow, McLeish played as a central defender for Aberdeen during their 1980s glory years, making nearly 500 League appearances for the club, and won 77 caps for Scotland.

Troy Matthew Dumais is an American competitive diver from California. Dumais has competed for the United States at the 2000 Summer Olympics, 2004 Athens Summer Olympics, 2008 Summer Olympics, and 2012 Summer Olympics, the last which he won a bronze team medal in the synchronized 3m. He attended the University of Texas at Austin.

Tom Kühnhackl is a German professional ice hockey player for the Bridgeport Sound Tigers of the American Hockey League (AHL). He has also played professionally in the NHL with the Pittsburgh Penguins and New York Islanders as well as for Augsburger Panther of the Deutsche Eishockey Liga (DEL), the top-tier hockey league of Germany.

Sarah Ourahmoune is a French former female boxer. She won a silver medal at the Rio Olympics in 2016 before she retired from boxing.

David F. Sandberg is a Swedish filmmaker. He is best known for his collective no-budget horror short films under the online pseudonym ponysmasher and for his 2016 directorial debut Lights Out, based on his 2013 acclaimed horror short of the same name. He also directed The Conjuring Universe spin-off horror film Annabelle: Creation (2017), Shazam! (2019), the seventh installment in the DC Extended Universe, and the experimental film I Flip You Off for Four Hours (2020).

Remy-Luc Auberjonois is an American actor. Auberjonois is best known for his recurring role as Mr. Albin in the television series Weeds and as Dr. Emerson on the television series Mad Men.

Károly Takács was the first shooter to win two Olympic gold medals in the 25 metre rapid fire pistol event, both with his left hand after his right hand was seriously injured. He is the third known physically disabled athlete to have competed in the Olympic Games after George Eyser in 1904 and Olivér Halassy in 1928, followed by Liz Hartel in 1952, Neroli Fairhall in 1984 and Oscar Pistorius in 2012.

Ángel María Villar Llona is a Spanish retired footballer who played as a midfielder.

Inés Coronel Barreras is a Mexican convicted drug lord and former high-ranking leader of the Sinaloa Cartel, a criminal group based in Sinaloa. He is the father-in-law of Joaquín "El Chapo" Guzmán, the former leader of the cartel and once considered Mexico's most-wanted man. Coronel Barreras was arrested by Mexican security forces in Agua Prieta, Sonora on 30 April 2013. He was sentenced to 10 years in prison on April 28, 2017 for drug trafficking and illegal possession of firearms.

Detlef Schrempf is a German-American retired professional basketball player. He played college basketball for the Washington Huskies from 1981 to 1985, and was drafted into the National Basketball Association (NBA) by the Dallas Mavericks in the first round of the 1985 NBA draft, with the eighth overall pick. He was an All-NBA Third Team member in 1995, a three-time NBA All-Star and the NBA Sixth Man of the Year twice.