List of Famous people born on January 1st

Ali İhsan Arslan is a Turkish politician from the Justice and Development Party (AKP) who has served as a Member of Parliament for Ankara's first electoral district since 7 June 2015. He is the son of İhsan Arslan, the two-term AKP MP from Diyarbakır between 2002 and 2011.

Charlotte Bellamy is an English actress. She is known for her long-running role as Laurel Thomas in the ITV soap opera Emmerdale. Her other television roles include Sue in EastEnders (1997) and Harriet Potter in The Broker's Man (1998), before joining Emmerdale in 2002. She won Best Actress at the 2017 British Soap Awards.

Hitu Kanodia is Gujarati film actor and politician from Gujarat, India.

Ahmad Musa Jibril, also known as Abu Khaled, is a Palestinian-American Islamic radical preacher, cleric, sheikh, and imam. In 2004 he was convicted on 42 charges including fraud. Ideologically influenced by the Sahwa movement, which combines the Islamist revolutionary ideology of Sayyid Qutb mixed with Saudi Wahabbism, he promotes Salafist militant Islamism, and has extensively preached about the Syrian Civil War in highly emotive pro-Sunni terms. While not known to be affiliated directly to any particular group, it has been claimed that he has been an inspirational source for many English speaking pro-Sunni jihadist fighters in Syria, in both al-Nusra and Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant, and elsewhere.

Leonard S. Schleifer is the co-founder and chief executive of the biotechnology company Regeneron Pharmaceuticals.

Mark Bridges is an American costume designer. He frequently collaborated with Paul Thomas Anderson for each films. Bridges has been nominated four times for an Academy Award for Best Costume Design, winning two for The Artist (2011) and Phantom Thread (2017). For the latter, he won a Jet Ski and a stay in Lake Havasu City, Arizona resort, as a part of the Academy Awards telecast stunt to award the Oscar recipient who gave the shortest acceptance speech. His other awards include two BAFTA Awards for Best Costume Design for his designs for The Artist and Phantom Thread.

Zheng Shanjie is a Chinese politician currently serving as governor and Deputy Party Secretary of Zhejiang and Party Secretary of Ningbo.

Auguste Corteau is the pen name of the Greek author Petros Hadjopoulos. He was born in Thessaloniki, in 1979.

Allison Hartwell Eid is a United States Circuit Judge for the United States Court of Appeals for the Tenth Circuit who previously served as the 95th Justice of the Colorado Supreme Court.

Gita Mehta is an Indian writer and documentary filmmaker.