List of Famous people born on January 23rd

Aya Hijazi is an Egyptian-American charity worker and social activist. Together with her husband she founded an NGO "Belady Foundation" to support child political prisoners in Egypt. Hijazi, her husband and five other Belady members were imprisoned in Cairo from 2014 until 2017, when the Cairo Criminal Court found them innocent.

Kazuya Maruyama is a Japanese politician of the Liberal Democratic Party, a member of the House of Councillors in the Diet.

Koji Ota is a Japanese former professional baseball pitcher in Japan's Nippon Professional Baseball, and belongs to Mainichi Broadcasting System, Inc. as a commentator in baseball live on radio and TV. Ota is a son of an American father and a Japanese mother, the adopted son of a Japanese step father and a Russian step mother, who emigrated to Japan because of the Russian Revolution in 1917.

Abdullah Ibrahim Al-Mayouf is a Saudi Arabian football player who currently plays as a goalkeeper for Al-Hilal FC.

Marine Fauthoux is a French basketball player for Tarbes GB and the French national team.

Vladimir Yevgenyevich Fortov was a Russian physicist who served as director of the Joint Institute for High Temperatures (1992–2013) and as president of the Russian Academy of Sciences (2013–2017). His research was in thermal physics, shock waves and plasma physics.

Francisco José Granados Lerena is a Spanish politician. Involved in the infamous "Púnica" corruption case he was held in preventive detention from October 2014 to June 2017. A prominent figure of the People's Party of the Community of Madrid in his capacity as Esperanza Aguirre's lieutenant in the regional branch of the PP, he has served as Mayor of Valdemoro (1999–2003), Minister in the regional government of the Community of Madrid as well as a member of the regional legislature.

Wolfgang Pichler is a German biathlon and cross-country skiing coach.

Celia Pavey, known professionally as Vera Blue, is an Australian singer-songwriter signed with Mercury Records Australia, which is part of Universal Music Australia. Her folk-inspired album This Music peaked at number 14 on the Australian ARIA Charts in July 2013. Pavey sings, and plays the guitar and the violin. She placed third in season 2 of The Voice Australia.