List of Famous people born on January 27th

Dominique Davray was a French actress. She performed in more than ninety films from 1942 to 1983.

Ahmed El Ahmar is an Egyptian handball player for Zamalek SC and the Egyptian national team.

Katherine Mayo was an American historian and nativist. Mayo entered the public sphere as a political writer advocating American nativism, opposition to non-white and Catholic immigration to the United States, along with promoting racist stereotypes of African Americans. She became known for denouncing the Philippine Declaration of Independence on racialist and religious grounds, and then went on to publish and promote her best-known work, Mother India (1927), a deeply critical book on Indian society, religion and culture. Written in opposition to the Indian independence movement, the book received a sharply divided reception upon its publication and was accused by several authors of being Indophobic, including Mahatma Gandhi.

Kensho Obayashi is a Japanese bodybuilder and professional wrestler better known by his ring name Zeus . He is currently signed to All Japan Pro Wrestling, where he is a former AJPW Triple Crown Heavyweight Champion and a former four-time World Tag Team Champion with Bodyguard.

Federico Mayor Zaragoza is a Spanish scientist, scholar, politician, diplomat, and poet. He served as director-general of UNESCO from 1987 to 1999. He is currently the chairman of the Foundation for a Culture of Peace and member of the Honorary Board of the International Decade for the Promotion of a Culture of Peace and Non-Violence for the Children of the World as well as the honorary chairman of the Académie de la Paix.

Lou Jean, known on stage as simply Lou, is a French singer.

Ricky van Wolfswinkel is a Dutch professional footballer who plays as a striker for Swiss Super League club Basel. He has played top-flight football in the Netherlands, Portugal, England, France, Spain and Switzerland and has been capped twice by the Netherlands national team.

Anri Kumaki is a Japanese pop female singer-songwriter currently signed on unBORDE Records, a division of Warner Music Group Japan.

Otari Kvantrishvili was a Georgian mafia boss and one of Moscow's leading organised crime figures during the early 1990s.

Ken ITO is a Japanese composer, conductor, and writer born in Tokyo on January 27, 1965. Ito has been assistant professor at University of Tokyo since 2000.