page_title: 1972
section_title: January
hierarchical_section_title: 1972 / Births / January
caption_attribution_description: English: Sakis Rouvas backstage at the ESC 2009 in Moscow during the semi-final on May 14, 2009
context_page_description: 1972 was a leap year starting on Saturday of the Gregorian calendar, the 1972nd year of the Common Era and Anno Domini designations, the 972nd year of the 2nd millennium, the 72nd year of the 20th century, and the 3rd year of the 1970s decade.
  Within the context of Coordinated Universal Time it was the longest year ever, as two leap seconds were added during this 366-day year, an event which has not since been repeated.
context_section_description: January 1
  Jennifer Hale, American voice actress
  Lilian Thuram, French football player
  January 2 – Shiraz Minwalla, Indian theoretical physicist and string theorist
  January 5 – Sakis Rouvas, Greek recording, film and television artist, athlete and businessman
  January 10 – Thomas Alsgaard, Norwegian cross-country skier
  January 11 – Amanda Peet, American actress
  January 12
  Espen Knutsen, Norwegian hockey player
  Toto Wolff, Austrian former racing driver and team principal
  January 13
  Nicole Eggert, American actress
  Vitaly Scherbo, Belarusian gymnast
  January 15 – Yang Yong-eun, South Korean golfer
  January 16
  Ang Christou, Australian rules footballer
  Yuri Alekseevich Drozdov, Russian footballer
  Salah Hissou, Moroccan long-distance runner
  January 17 – Ken Hirai, Japanese singer and songwriter
  January 19 – Angham, Egyptian singer, record producer and actress
  January 20 – Nikki Haley, Indian-American politician, Governor of South Carolina (2010-2017) and former U.S. Ambassador to the United Nations (2017-2018)
  January 21 – Billel Dziri, Algerian footballer
  January 22
  Gabriel Macht, American actor
  Romi Park, Japanese voice actress
  January 23
  Ewen Bremner, Scottish actor
  Marcel Wouda, Dutch swimmer
  January 25 – Chantal Andere, Mexican actress
  January 27
  Bibi Gaytán, Mexican singer and actress
  Mark Owen, British pop singer (Take That)
  Keith Wood, Irish rugby player
caption: Sakis Rouvas
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