Famous People Born on January 29

• Abbey, Edward (1927)

  Author of The Monkey Wrench Gang

• Chekhov, Anton (1860)

  Author of The Cherry Orchard

• Graham, Heather (1970)

  Rollergirl in the 1997 movie Boogie Nights

• Greer, Germaine (1939)

  Feminist author of 'The Female Eunuch'

• Longet, Claudine (1942)

  The wispy French singer who shot Spider Sabich

• McKinley, William (1843)

  President of the United States, 1897-1901

• Paine, Thomas (1737)

  The author of Common Sense

• Ryan, Paul (1970)

  U.S. Speaker of the House, 2015-2019

• Selleck, Tom (1945)

  Magnum, P.I. on the TV show Magnum, P.I.

• Uchitel, Rachel (1975)

  The alleged "other woman" in the Tiger Woods brouhaha of 2009

• Winfrey, Oprah (1954)

  The host of TV's Oprah from 1986-2011

See also: Died on January 29