List of Famous people born on January 1st

Dame Cynthia Alcyion Kiro is a New Zealand public health academic and administrator, who will become the 22nd Governor-General of New Zealand in October 2021. Kiro is Māori of Ngā Puhi, Ngāti Kahu, Ngāti Hine descent and will be the first Māori woman to be governor-general.

Ferit Şahenk is the Chairman of Turkey's Doğuş Group and one of the richest people in Turkey.

Indu Malhotra is a Judge and former Senior Counsel in the Supreme Court of India.

Samuel Peter Matterface is an English sports broadcaster currently working for TalkSPORT and ITV Sport.

Yılmaz Vural is a Turkish football manager and former player. He played as a midfielder for Hacettepe and Sivasspor in the 1970s.

Richard Spielman is an American football executive who is the general manager of the Minnesota Vikings of the National Football League (NFL). He was promoted to general manager in 2012 after spending 2006–2011 as the team's vice president of player personnel. He formerly worked for ESPN on NFL Live.

Michael B. McCaskey was an American sports executive who was the chairman of the Chicago Bears in the National Football League from 1999 until 2011.

Haifa bint Faisal bin Abdulaziz Al Saud is a member of the House of Saud.

Todd Tilghman of Meridian, Mississippi, is a pastor best known as the winner of the 18th season of American series The Voice. He has the distinction of being the first artist to be aired that season and the first artist to be aired as being unanimously selected by the judges. He decided to compete in the team coached by Blake Shelton, proving to do the expected. His voice took him straight to the winners circle. At age 42, he became the oldest winner in the series history, a record previously held by Josh Kaufman.

Zulema Fátima Yoma was the First Lady of Argentina from 1989 until 1991, when she got divorced from President Carlos Menem.