List of Famous people born on January 28th

Shogo Sakai is a former Japanese football player.

Siegfried Jacobsohn was a German writer and influential theatre critic.

Nicolò Donà or Nicolò Donato was the 93rd Doge of Venice, reigning for little more than a month, from his election on 5 April 1618 until his death.

Francis Jardine "Frank" Bell was a Canadian-born American politician. He was the sixth Governor of Nevada. He was a member of the Republican Party.

Hermann Brockhaus was a German Orientalist born in Amsterdam. He was a leading authority on Sanskrit and Persian languages. He was the son of publisher Friedrich Arnold Brockhaus and brother-in-law to composer Richard Wagner. In 1870 he received a combined medal (together with in occasion of the 25th anniversary of the DMG.

Karl Hajos was a Hungarian composer who worked on many film scores. Born in the Austro-Hungarian Empire, Hajos emigrated to the United States in 1924 and worked in Hollywood. Beginning in the late silent era, he worked on over 100 films with a variety of directors and studios. He was one of nine composers employed on the 1931 Western Fighting Caravans. In 1934, he worked on Cecil B. Demille's thriller Four Frightened People. He was nominated for two Academy Awards, in 1944 and 1945 in the Music Score of a Dramatic or Comedy Picture category for Summer Storm and The Man Who Walked Alone, respectively.

Karl Friedrich Wilhelm Rohn was a German mathematician, who studied geometry.