List of Famous people born on January 26th

Riko Simanjuntak is an Indonesian professional footballer who plays as a winger for Liga 1 club Persija Jakarta and the Indonesia national team. Before he joined Persija, he had changed clubs four times. He is sometimes called Ucok and is often a mainstay player for the team in Indonesian competitions.

Celso Fabián Ortiz Gamarra, commonly known as Celso Ortiz, is a Paraguayan football player, currently playing as a midfielder for Liga MX club Monterrey and the Paraguay national team.

Juan Amador Sánchez is an Argentine football player and manager. A defender, he played for ten clubs during his career, all in his native Argentina.

Robert Cailliau is a Belgian informatics engineer, computer scientist and author who proposed the first (pre-www) hypertext system for CERN in 1987 and collaborated with Tim Berners-Lee on the World Wide Web from before it got its name. He designed the historical logo of the WWW, organized the first International World Wide Web Conference at CERN in 1994 and helped transfer Web development from CERN to the global Web consortium in 1995. Together with Dr. James Gillies, Cailliau wrote How the Web Was Born, the first book-length account of the origins of the World Wide Web. [[

Kevin Joseph Pangos is a Canadian professional basketball player for Zenit Saint Petersburg of the VTB United League and the EuroLeague. He spent his college basketball career playing for the Gonzaga Bulldogs of the West Coast Conference. He was named the 2015 WCC Player of the Year, as well as a third-team All-American by Sporting News. Pangos has also represented Canada on the international stage. He earned an All-EuroLeague Second Team selection in 2018.

Reinhard Hans Bütikofer is a German politician who has been member of the European Parliament since 2009. He is a member of the Alliance 90/The Greens, part of the European Green Party. From 8 December 2002 till 16 November 2008 he was party leader, together with Claudia Roth. In November 2012 Bütikofer was chosen co-spokesperson for the European Green Party.

Vincent Fang was born on 26 January 1969 in Hualien, Taiwan. He is a Taiwanese multi-Golden Melody Award nominated lyricist, best known for his collaboration with singer-songwriter Jay Chou. Fang won Best Lyricist at the 19th Golden Melody Awards for "青花瓷" sung by Jay Chou from On the Run. He is considered to be at the forefront of China Wind music, with his works often treated as poetry of artistic merit that garners high critical regard.

Rolf Fringer is an Austrian football manager and former player. He has managed the Switzerland national football team and numerous Swiss football clubs.

Yva was the professional pseudonym of Else Ernestine Neuländer-Simon who was a German Jewish photographer renowned for her dreamlike, multiple exposed images. She became a leading photographer in Berlin during the Weimar Republic.

Nawaf Shaker al-Abed is a Saudi Arabian footballer who plays for Al Shabab. Al-Abed plays as a winger and striker for both Al Shabab and his national team.