List of Famous people born on January 29th
Antony Leung
Antony Leung Kam-chung GBS OBE JP is a businessman who served as Financial Secretary of the Hong Kong Special Administrative Region (HKSAR), from 29 May 2001 until his resignation on 16 July 2003.
April Scott
April Ann McIntosh is an American actress and model known professionally as April Scott. She has appeared on television programs such as CSI: Miami and It's Always Sunny in Philadelphia, as well as films such as The Dukes of Hazzard: The Beginning, I Do... I Did, The Penthouse and Living Will. She is currently the host of the TV show Model Turned Superstar on the 4K Universe Channel and Dragonborn Gaming on YouTube.
George FitzClarence, 1st Earl of Munster
George Augustus Frederick FitzClarence, 1st Earl of Munster, was an English peer and soldier.
Romain Rolland
Romain Rolland was a French dramatist, novelist, essayist, art historian and mystic who was awarded the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1915 "as a tribute to the lofty idealism of his literary production and to the sympathy and love of truth with which he has described different types of human beings".
Duchess Luise of Brunswick-Wolfenbüttel
Luise of Brunswick-Wolfenbüttel was daughter of Ferdinand Albert II, Duke of Brunswick-Wolfenbüttel and his wife Duchess Antoinette of Brunswick-Wolfenbüttel.
Johan Budi
Johan Budi Sapto Pribowo or better known as Johan Budi is an Indonesian spokesman and journalist. Johan Budi is the Special Assistant to President Joko Widodo on Communication and Media, a.k.a. the Presidential Spokesman. In 2015, he was the Acting Chief of the Corruption Eradication Commission (KPK) to fill in for Abraham Samad and Bambang Widjojanto who were being suspended by President Joko Widodo.
Eloy Casagrande
Eloy Casagrande is a Brazilian drummer, best known as the current drummer of thrash metal band Sepultura and hard rock act Iahweh.
Greg Ballard
Gregory Ballard was an American professional basketball player and NBA assistant coach. A collegiate All-American at Oregon, Ballard averaged 12.4 points and 6.1 rebounds over an eleven season NBA career with the Washington Bullets, Golden State Warriors and briefly, the Seattle Supersonics.
Edward Abbey
Edward Paul Abbey was an American author and essayist noted for his advocacy of environmental issues and criticism of public land policies. His best-known works include Desert Solitaire, a non-fiction autobiographical account of his time as a park ranger at Arches National Park considered to be iconic work of nature writing and a staple of early environmentalist writing, the novel The Monkey Wrench Gang, which has been cited as an inspiration by environmentalists and groups defending nature by various means, also called eco-warriors, his novel Hayduke Lives, and his essay collections Down the River (1982) and One Life at a Time, Please (1988).
Duke Ludwig Friedrich I, Duke of Württemberg-Montbéliard
Louis Frederick of Württemberg-Montbéliard was the founder of a cadet line of the House of Württemberg known as the Dukes of Württemberg-Montbéliard.