Compared per date, so a 31-day month has no advantage over February. January averages 51.6 notable people and 2.13 billionaires per date, ranking #2 and #8 of 12 respectively, with $803B of combined reported wealth (#5 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 1,599 people we list, by documented field.
Authors27% (430 people)
Entrepreneurs23% (362 people)
Actors21% (331 people)
Creators18% (280 people)
Politicians17% (275 people)
Athletes17% (273 people)
Musicians14% (227 people)
Countries
151 countries, most often United States
Citizenship as recorded on Wikidata, one country per person.
United States451 (451 people)
United Kingdom118 (118 people)
France104 (104 people)
Japan72 (72 people)
Germany53 (53 people)
Spain48 (48 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 September 2026. Month ranks compare all twelve months on the dataset built on 2026-09-28. Read the methodology.
