List of Famous people born on January 28th
Rei Higuchi
Rei Higuchi is a Japanese freestyle wrestler who won a silver medal in the 57 kg division at the 2016 Olympics.
Seiya Sanada
Seiya Sanada , better known by his ring name Sanada, is a Japanese professional wrestler. He is currently signed to New Japan Pro-Wrestling (NJPW), and is a member of Los Ingobernables de Japon.
Heinz Frei
Heinz Frei is a Swiss wheelchair athlete. Frei has had a long career of racing, winning the London Marathon wheelchair race three times, and earning five medals at the 2003 European games at the age of 45. He has earned 15 gold medals at the summer and winter Paralympics and is a current world record holder in the half-marathon and marathon wheelchair races. He competed in athletics at every Summer Paralympic Games from 1984 to 2008, and at the 2008, 2012 and 2016 Summer Olympics he competed in cycling, using a handcycle. At the Winter Paralympics, he competed in cross-country sit-skiing between 1984 and 2006 and in the biathlon in 1994.
Harm Osmers
Harm Osmers is a German football referee who is based in Hanover. He referees for SV Baden of the Lower Saxony Football Association. He is a FIFA referee, and is ranked as a UEFA second category referee.
Kristina Kretova
Kristina Aleksandrovna Kretova is a Russian soloist of the Bolshoi Ballet.
Alexander Starovoitov
Aleksandr Sergeyevich Starovoitov, is a Russian social and political figure, who is a deputy of the State Duma of the sixth and seventh convocations from the Liberal Democratic Party of Russia.
Robinho
Edelson Robson dos Santos, known as Robinho, is a Russian professional futsal player who plays as a winger for Portuguese club Benfica and the Russia national team.
Iszmail Muszukajev
Ismail Timurovich Musukaev is a Russian freestyle wrestler of Balkar heritage, who has been representing Hungary since 2019. He represented Hungary at the 2020 Summer Olympics in Tokyo, Japan in the men's 65 kg event.
Caroline Fiat
Caroline Fiat is a French politician representing la France Insoumise. She was elected to the French National Assembly on 18 June 2017, representing the 6th constituency of the department of Meurthe-et-Moselle.
Yukiko Horiguchi
Yukiko Horiguchi is a Japanese animator and illustrator from Kyoto Prefecture, who used to work for the anime studio Kyoto Animation. When illustrating a light novel, she uses pen name "Shiromizakana" (白身魚). She is best known as being the character designer for the anime adaptations of Lucky Star and K-On!, the anime original Tamako Market and for being the illustrator of the light novel Kokoro Connect.