List of Famous people born on January 1st

Ian Bartholomew is a British actor from Portsmouth, England who has worked widely in both theatre and television. In March 2018, Bartholomew joined the cast of ITV soap opera, Coronation Street, as the abusive Geoff Metcalfe.

Yukio Cho , known professionally as Akira the Hustler , is a Japanese artist, writer, actor, activist, and former sex worker.

Jörg Urban is a German politician for the Alternative for Germany and member of the Landtag of the Free State of Saxony since 2014.

Célia Nunes Correa, better known as Célia Xakriabá [ˈsɛ.li.ɐ ʃɐˌkɾi.ɐˈba], is an indigenous educator and activist of the Xakriabá people of Brazil. She is best known for holding debates and lectures at universities in Brazil promoting, among other things, advancement of the status and rights of indigenous women, indigenous land rights, and indigenous education.

Chen Pei-jer is a Taiwanese hepatologist and an academician of Academia Sinica.

Randall Edwards is an American former actress. She is best known for playing the role of Delia Ryan on the television soap opera Ryan's Hope from 1979 to 1982.

Benjamin Eli Smith is an American journalist who has worked as a media columnist for The New York Times since January 2020. From 2011 to 2020, he was the editor-in-chief of BuzzFeed News.

Stanislav Lunev is a former Soviet military officer, the highest-ranking GRU officer to defect from Russia to the United States.

Gabriel Sabourin is a Canadian actor and screenwriter from Quebec. He is most noted for the 2017 film It's the Heart That Dies Last , for which he received Canadian Screen Award nominations for Best Actor and Best Adapted Screenplay at the 6th Canadian Screen Awards.

Cavit Çağlar is a Turkish businessman and politician. He was elected to the Grand National Assembly of Turkey (TBMM) for the True Path Party (DYP) in 1991, serving as a Minister of State responsible for state-owned banks. He resigned from the DYP in 1996, remaining in parliament as an independent until 1999. He had been a major financial contributor to the political comeback of President Suleyman Demirel. In 2004 he was sentenced to three years ten months for bank fraud.