List of Famous people born on January 21st

Lyubov Igorevna Nikitina is a Russian freestyle skier who competes internationally.

Miguel Reina Santos is a Spanish retired footballer who played as a goalkeeper.

Oskar Roehler is a German film director, screenwriter and journalist. He was born in Starnberg as the son of writer Gisela Elsner and the writer Klaus Roehler. Since the mid-1980s he has been working as a screenwriter, for, among others, Niklaus Schilling, Christoph Schlingensief and Mark Schlichter. Since the early 1990s he has also been working as a film director. For his film No Place to Go he won the Deutscher Filmpreis. His 2010 film Jew Suss: Rise and Fall was nominated for the Golden Bear at the 60th Berlin International Film Festival.

Felix Hoffmann was a German chemist notable for re-synthesizing diamorphine, which was popularized under the Bayer trade name of "heroin". He is also credited with synthesizing aspirin, though whether he did this under his own initiative or under the instruction of Arthur Eichengrün is contested.

Óscar Christopher Vílchez Soto is a Peruvian footballer who plays as a central midfielder for Alianza Universidad and for the Peru national football team. He is also the younger brother of footballer Walter Vílchez.

Manuel Fernández Fernández, known as Pahiño, was a Spanish footballer who played as a striker.

Jean Philippe Cretton Vásquez is a Chilean television presenter and journalist. He was the co-hoster of Televisión Nacional de Chile's program Calle 7 until 31 August 2010, and main hoster beginning on 26 October of that year and until 2013.

Radley Metzger was an American pioneering filmmaker and film distributor, most noted for popular artistic, adult-oriented films, including Camille 2000 (1969), The Lickerish Quartet (1970), Score (1974), The Private Afternoons of Pamela Mann (1974), The Image (1975), The Opening of Misty Beethoven (1976) and Barbara Broadcast (1977). According to one film reviewer, Metzger's films, including those made during the Golden Age of Porn (1969–1984), are noted for their "lavish design, witty screenplays, and a penchant for the unusual camera angle". Another reviewer noted that his films were "highly artistic — and often cerebral ... and often featured gorgeous cinematography". Film and audio works by Metzger have been added to the permanent collection of the Museum of Modern Art (MoMA) in New York City.

Anatol Herzfeld was a German sculptor and mixed-media artist, and also a policeman. A student of Joseph Beuys, he primarily used wood, iron and stone as materials. As an artist, he simply signed Anatol. He received attention for a happening, crossing the Rhine in a boat he created with Beuys, after Beuys had been expelled from the Kunstakademie Düsseldorf.

Yumi Hara is a Japanese voice actress and singer from Osaka Prefecture, Japan. She is affiliated with Arts Vision. In December 2017, her management announced that she would put her singing career on hiatus and she will be focusing on her voice acting career. She announced her marriage on September 26, 2019. On July 17, 2020, she announced that she had given birth to a baby boy.