List of Famous people born on January 29th

Ernst Eduard Kummer was a German mathematician. Skilled in applied mathematics, Kummer trained German army officers in ballistics; afterwards, he taught for 10 years in a gymnasium, the German equivalent of high school, where he inspired the mathematical career of Leopold Kronecker.

Ong Jian Guo is a badminton player from Malaysia. Ong was selected to join the Malacca team in 2001, and two years later he moved to Kuala Lumpur to be educated at the Bukit Jalil Sports School. He was the bronze medalist at the 2007 World Junior Championships in the boys' doubles event, and helped the Malaysia men's team won the silver medal at the 2011 Southeast Asian Games in Jakarta, Indonesia. Ong had a relationships with the Olympic silver medalist Goh Liu Ying since they were 19 years old, but in 2017, they ended their relationship.

John J. Wood is the Founder of Room to Read, a global non-profit organization focused on literacy and gender equality in education. He is the author of Creating Room to Read: A Story of Hope in the Battle for Global Literacy, Leaving Microsoft to Change the World: An Entrepreneur's Odyssey to Educate the World's Children and the children's book Zak the Yak with Books on His Back. He is a four-term member of the Clinton Global Initiative's Advisory Board and a Henry Crown Fellow at the Aspen Institute. Wood was selected for the inaugural class of Young Global Leaders by the World Economic Forum and was awarded Microsoft's first "Alumni of the Year" award by Bill and Melinda Gates. Wood has served on the Board of Directors for Net Impact and One Acre Fund, and is currently an Advisory Board member of Global Citizen Year, New Story and Possible Health.

Ludwig Flamm was an Austrian physicist.