List of Famous people born on January 1st

Steven T. Huff is an American multi-millionaire astrophysicist, inventor and philanthropist, who after his careers in the United States Army and Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) founded defense intelligence related companies he eventually sold using the money to build one of the largest homes in the United States named Pensmore, and who is now retired and runs his private independent Pensmore Foundation dedicated to philanthropy, voluntarism and grant making.

CGP Grey is an American-Irish educational YouTuber and podcaster whose channel features short explanatory videos on varying subjects, including politics, geography, economics, history, and culture. His channel surpassed one million subscribers in 2013, and his videos have been reviewed in publications such as Business Insider and The Washington Post. Grey created his YouTube account on 12 August 2010, and also posts videos on his second channel CGPGrey2 and gaming channel CGP Play.

Zarifa Ghafari is an Afghan advocate, activist, politician and entrepreneur. She is the current mayor of Maidan Shahr, capital city of the Wardak Province, Afghanistan. Zarifa is one of the few Afghanistani female mayors, and also is the youngest to be appointed at the age of 26. She is known for her efforts in empowering women's rights in Afghanistan. Zarifa was chosen as an International Woman of Courage in 2020 by the US Secretary of State.

Merve Çağıran is a Turkish actress.

Jonathan Greenblatt is an American social entrepreneur, corporate executive, and the sixth National Director and CEO of the Anti-Defamation League (ADL). Prior to heading the ADL, Greenblatt served in the White House as Special Assistant to Barack Obama and Director of the Office of Social Innovation and Civic Participation.

Daniel Stewart Butterfield is a Canadian billionaire businessman, best known for co-founding the photo-sharing website Flickr and the team-messaging application Slack.

Claire Skinner is an English actress, known in the United Kingdom for her television career, particularly playing Sue Brockman from the BBC television series Outnumbered.

Trevin Dewayne Giles is an American mixed martial artist (MMA). Giles currently competes in the middleweight division in the Ultimate Fighting Championship (UFC).

Bismillah Khan Mohammadi, or Bismillah Khan, was Defense Minister of Afghanistan. From 2002 to 2010 and from 19 June 2021 to 15 August 2021 he served as Chief of Staff of the Afghan National Army and from 2010 to 2012 he held the post of Interior Minister of Afghanistan. He has an anti-Taliban background and once served as a senior commander under Ahmad Shah Massoud.

Mathieu Guidere is a full professor at the University of Paris and research director at the French National Institute of Health (INSERM). A scholar of Linguistics as it applies to Translation Studies, he has held other professorships at prestigious institutions including the School of Translation and Interpretation (ETI) at the University of Geneva, Switzerland. Dr. Guidere is the founder of the Swiss NGO Multilingual International Mediators, and has been awarded King Abdullah Bin Abdulaziz International Award for Translation due to his individual efforts in translating from Arabic. He has been also awarded a Fulbright Prize in 2006 to advance his research on the psychology of translation. He has been also editor-in-chief of the French Journal of Languages' Professors, Les Langues Modernes, from 2001 to 2003. In 2015, he was also Team Leader of the European Union Research Program in West Africa and the Sahel Region.