List of Famous people born on January 1st

Tan Sri Abdul Rashid Hussain is an entrepreneur in Malaysia. He is the founder of RHB Group. In less than a decade, he built a financial services conglomerate comprising a stockbroking firm, a commercial bank, a finance company and a merchant bank-RHB Bank. He began his financial services career in 1971 with Strauss Turnbull in Britain and returned to Malaysia in 1975 to work in Bumiputra Merchant Bankers Bhd. He then left Bumiputra Merchant Bankers in 1983 to start Rashid Hussain Securities. Under his stewardship, RHB Securities became one of the leading stockbrokers in Malaysia.

Josh Singer is an American screenwriter and producer. He is best known for writing The Fifth Estate (2013), Spotlight (2015), The Post (2017) and First Man (2018). He won the Academy Award for Best Original Screenplay for Spotlight and was nominated for the Golden Globe for Best Screenplay for Spotlight and The Post.

Peter Owen-Jones is an English Anglican priest, author and television presenter.

Dame Rachel Mary de Souza is a British educationalist, and former head teacher. She was the founding chief executive of the Inspiration Trust and served in that role until March 2021, when she took up the post of Children's Commissioner for England. Rachel de Souza was appointed a Dame in the 2014 New Year Honours for her services to education.

Rachel White is an American Indian actress and model who works in Hindi and Bengali films. She has appeared in the Bollywood film Ungli (2014); and Bengali films Har Har Byomkesh, Devi (2017) and One (2017).

Emi Kobayashi is a Japanese gravure idol. She is from Tokyo, and belongs to the show-business production Suns Entertainment. She belonged to Yellow Cab before 2004. She portrayed the hostess who became a nun named Saori in Lion-Maru G.

Hasnain Kazim is a German journalist and writer of Pakistani origin. He is a winner of the CNN Journalist Award in 2009.

Nadira, Lady Naipaul, is a Pakistani journalist and the widow of novelist Sir V. S. Naipaul.

Daniel Kelly is an American attorney and former judge who served as a Wisconsin Supreme Court Justice from August 1, 2016 through August 1, 2020. He was appointed by Wisconsin Governor Scott Walker to fill the unexpired term of Justice David Prosser. Before he was appointed by Walker, Kelly was a conservative attorney who defended Walker's legislation, including a 2011 redistricting plan that was struck down by the lower federal courts. The lower federal courts' decisions were reversed on appeal.

Cynthia Gail Aaron is an associate justice of the California Fourth District Court of Appeal appointed to the post by Governor Gray Davis in 2003.