List of Famous people born on January 1st

Uthman ibn Abduh ibn Husayn ibn Taha Alkurdi is a Syrian calligrapher of the Quran in the Arabic language renowned for hand-writing Mushaf al-Madinah issued by the King Fahd Complex for the Printing of the Holy Qur'an.

Mikhail Averyanovich Panikakha was a Red Army soldier. He was posthumously awarded the title Hero of the Soviet Union for destroying a German tank with two Molotov cocktails while on fire during the Battle of Stalingrad.

Dianna Mae Ortiz was an American Roman Catholic sister of the Ursuline order. While serving as a missionary in Guatemala, she was abducted on November 2, 1989, by members of the Guatemalan military, detained, raped, and tortured for 24 hours before being released. After her release, Ortiz reported that an American was among her captors. This part of her account could not be confirmed.

Viral V. Acharya is an Indian economist who was appointed as Deputy Governor of Reserve Bank of India (RBI). He also served as a member of the advisory council of the RBI Academy and was a member of the Academic Council of the National Institute of Securities Markets (NISM), Securities and Exchange Board of India (SEBI) since 2014. As of 23 January 2017, he was appointed to serve a three-year term as a Deputy Governor of the Reserve Bank of India.He resigned from the post in July 2019 with 6 months left for his completion of term.

Rosalind G. Brewer is an American businesswoman, who is slated to become the CEO of Walgreens on March 15, 2021; at that time, she will be the only Black female CEO of a Fortune 500 company. She is currently the COO of Starbucks and the former President and CEO of Sam's Club, a division of Wal-Mart Stores Inc. USA Today referred to her as "one of corporate America's most prominent women and black female executives." She became the first woman and the first African-American to fill the role of CEO at one of Wal-Mart Stores' divisions. In 2018 she was listed as the 34th in Forbes' ranking of the most powerful women.

Zhang Xudong is a general (Shangjiang) of the People's Liberation Army (PLA) of China and the current commander of the Western Theater Command. He was promoted to the rank of major general (shaojiang) in July 2012, lieutenant general (zhongjiang) in July 2018, and general (Shangjiang) in December 2020.

Cassie Marie Berman is an American musician. She was a member of the indie rock band Silver Jews, which was fronted by her husband David Berman. She contributed vocals and occasionally bass to the albums Bright Flight, Tanglewood Numbers, and Lookout Mountain, Lookout Sea. She also played bass and sang backup during live concerts. Berman appeared in the film Silver Jew, which chronicled the band's tour of the Middle East.

Nana Falgunrao Patole is an Indian politician from Maharashtra. He was the Speaker of the Maharashtra Legislative Assembly.

Lyndsey Scott is an American model, software developer, and actress. She was the first African American model to sign an exclusive runway contract with Calvin Klein. Between modeling assignments for prestigious fashion houses like Gucci, Prada, and Victoria's Secret, she writes mobile apps for iOS devices. She has been credited for challenging the stereotypes about models and computer programmers, and for inspiring young women to code.

Çevik Bir is a retired Turkish army general. He was a member of the Turkish General Staff in the 1990s. He took a major part in several important international missions in the Middle East and North Africa. He was born in Buca, Izmir Province, in 1939 and is married with one child. Çevik Bir is of Albanian origin.