page_title: 1962
section_title: January
hierarchical_section_title: 1962 / Births / January
caption_attribution_description: English: Photograph of actress Sophie Thompson taken at an Investiture at Buckingham Palace
context_page_description: 1962 was a common year starting on Monday of the Gregorian calendar, the 1962nd year of the Common Era and Anno Domini designations, the 962nd year of the 2nd millennium, the 62nd year of the 20th century, and the 3rd year of the 1960s decade.
context_section_description: January 2 – Iván Palazzese, Italian-Venezuelan professional motorcycle racer (d. 1989)
  January 3 – Guy Pratt, English musician and songwriter
  January 4
  Patrick Cassidy, American actor
  Peter Steele, American musician (Type O Negative) (d. 2010)
  Natalya Bochina, Russian athlete
  January 5 – Suzy Amis Cameron, American actress and model
  January 6 – Mark Ellis, English footballer
  January 7
  Ron Rivera, American football player and coach
  Kiiri Tamm, Estonian actress
  Hallie Todd, American actress, producer and writer
  January 9 – Cecilia Gabriela, Mexican actress
  January 10 – C. Martin Croker, American animator and voice actor (d. 2016)
  January 11
  Kim Coles, American actress, comedian and game show host
  Melanie Hill, English actress
  January 12
  Luna Vachon, American-Canadian professional wrestler (d. 2010)
  Alfred Schön, German footballer and manager
  January 13
  Trace Adkins, American country music singer
  Kevin Mitchell, American baseball player
  January 14 – Michael McCaul, American politician
  January 17
  Jim Carrey, Canadian actor and comedian
  Denis O'Hare, American-Irish actor
  January 18
  Mike Lynch, American cartoonist
  Alison Arngrim, Canadian-American actress and comedian
  January 20
  Sakiko Tamagawa, Japanese voice actress
  Sophie Thompson, English actress
  January 21
  Tyler Cowen, American economist
  Marie Trintignant, French actress (d. 2003)
  January 22
  Lyudmila Dzhigalova, Russian athlete
  Mizan Zainal Abidin of Terengganu, Yang di-Pertuan Agong of Malaysia
  January 23
  Stephen Keshi, Nigerian footballer and manager (d. 2016)
  Richard Roxburgh, Australian actor
  January 25
  Chris Chelios, American ice hockey player
  Christopher Coppola, American film director and producer
  January 26
  Malcom Gregory Scott, American writer, activist, and AIDS survivor
  Anna LaCazio, American singer (Cock Robin)
  January 28
  Creflo Dollar, American evangelist
  Hamish McColl, British comedian, writer and actor
  January 29 – Olga Tokarczuk, Polish novelist, Nobel Prize laureate
  January 30 – King Abdullah II of Jordan
  January 31 – David Oliver, American actor (d. 1992)
caption: Sophie Thompson
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