List of Famous people born on January 1st

Manabu Miyazaki, born in Nagano Prefecture in 1949, is a Japanese wildlife photographer.

Peter Tierney Murrell is the Chief Executive Officer of the Scottish National Party. He is married to Nicola Sturgeon, the party's leader and First Minister of Scotland.

Carlo Paalam is a Filipino amateur boxer. As of April 2021, he is ranked number 12 in the men's flyweight division at the Amateur International Boxing Association rankings.

Abdul-Malik Badruldeen al-Houthi is a Yemeni politician and religious leader who serves as the leader of the Houthi movement, a revolutionary movement principally made up of Zaidi Muslims. His brothers Yahia and Abdul-Karim are also leaders of the group, as were his late brothers Hussein, Ibrahim, and Abdulkhaliq. Abdul-Malik Houthi is the leading figure in the Yemeni Civil War which started with the Houthi takeover in Yemen in the Saada Governorate in northern Yemen.

Graham David Hughes is a British adventurer, filmmaker, television presenter and Guinness World Record holder. Hughes was the first person to visit all 193 United Nations member states and several other territories across the world without flying. He did so over a period of just over four years and officially completed the task at the end of January 2013.

Ahmed Fahour is a Lebanese Australian businessman. He is the managing director (MD) and CEO of Latitude Financial Services, and was formerly MD and CEO of Australia Post, and CEO Australia of the National Australia Bank (NAB).

Abel Sanchez is a Mexican-American boxing trainer. He is best known as the former coach of Gennadiy Golovkin, and has trained other boxers such as Lupe Aquino, Terry Norris, and Murat Gassiev.

Balli Durga Prasad Rao was an Indian politician. He was elected to the Lok Sabha, lower house of the Parliament of India from Tirupati, Andhra Pradesh in the 2019 Indian general election as a member of the YSR Congress Party.

Bas Balkissoon is a former politician in Ontario, Canada. He was a Liberal member of the Legislative Assembly of Ontario from 2005 to 2016 who represented the riding of Scarborough—Rouge River. From 1988 to 1997 he was a municipal councillor in Scarborough and from 1998 to 2005 he was a councillor in the amalgamated city of Toronto.

Mark Peel was an American chef and restaurateur in California. Campanile, a restaurant owned by Peel and his former wife Nancy Silverton, won a James Beard Foundation Award in 2001. Peel specialized in California cuisine.