Compared per date, so a 31-day month has no advantage over February. January averages 47.8 notable people and 1.16 billionaires per date, ranking #2 and #2 of 12 respectively, with $566B of combined reported wealth (#2 of 12). See the full month table.
Jeffrey Preston Bezos is an American businessman, and the founder, executive chairman, and former president and CEO of Amazon, the world's largest e-commerce and cloud computing company.
Born January 12. Reported estimate as of August 2020; not a live figure.
Who is born in January
Fields across the month
Share of the 1,482 people we list, by documented field.
Authors29% (429 people)
Actors22% (331 people)
Creators19% (278 people)
Athletes18% (273 people)
Entrepreneurs18% (270 people)
Politicians18% (261 people)
Musicians15% (227 people)
Countries
148 countries, most often United States
Citizenship as recorded on Wikidata, one country per person.
United States427 (427 people)
United Kingdom115 (115 people)
France101 (101 people)
Japan71 (71 people)
Spain48 (48 people)
Germany47 (47 people)
Italy35 (35 people)
About these numbers
Counts cover the people on the public page for each January date, every one traced to a Wikidata record. Billionaires need a dated estimate of at least $1B from Forbes, Bloomberg, the Sunday Times Rich List, Hurun or a filing; combined wealth adds the low end of those estimates, the newest as of 2025. Month ranks compare all twelve months on the dataset built on 2026-09-07. Read the methodology.
