List of Famous people born on January 1st

James Gerard Dinan is an American investor, hedge fund manager, philanthropist. He founded York Capital Management in 1991.

Ziad Rahbani is a Lebanese composer, pianist, playwright, and political commentator. He is the son of Fairouz, one of Lebanon and the Arab world's most famous singers, and Assi Rahbani, one of the founders of modern Arab music.

Rose Wylie is a British painter. She is an artist known for creating large paintings on unprimed canvas.

Kevin Ferguson Jr. is a Bahamian-American professional mixed martial artist who is currently under contract with Bellator MMA.

Phyllis Stadler Lyon, formerly Phyllis Marie Stadler, is an American former field hockey player. She played on the U.S. women's national field hockey team from 1958 to 1965 and was in the first class of inductees into the U.S. Field Hockey Association Hall of Fame.

Martin Plaza is the pseudonym of Martin Edward Murphy, who is a vocalist/guitarist/songwriter with Australian pop/new wave band Mental As Anything. Plaza also has a solo music career and in 1986 had a No. 2 hit in Australia with his cover of the 1960s Unit 4+2 song "Concrete and Clay". Plaza has worked in other bands and is an accomplished artist. In 2013, Martin underwent surgery for kidney cancer. He is currently on chemotherapy and not playing with the Mentals.

Saad ibn Nasser al-Shithri [Arabic سعد بن ناصر الشثري] is an Islamic scholar from Saudi Arabia. Since 2015, he has been a member of the country's Council of Senior Scholars and an advisor to the royal court of King Salman.

Seniesa Carmen Estrada is an American professional boxer. She has held the WBC Silver light flyweight title since 2018 and previously the WBA interim flyweight title from 2019 to March 2020. As of September 2020, she is ranked as the world's fifth best active female light flyweight by The Ring and ninth by BoxRec.

Kamala Chakravarty is an Indian classical musician and former dancer, known for her association with sitar maestro Ravi Shankar. From 1967 until the late 1970s, she accompanied Shankar, in the role of tambura player and singer, in a number of acclaimed performances, including the Monterey International Pop Festival (1967), his Human Rights Day duet with violinist Yehudi Menuhin (1967), the Concert for Bangladesh (1971) and the Music Festival from India (1974). She also lived with Shankar as his wife from 1967 to 1981, during which he was still married to musician and teacher Annapurna Devi.

Ogochukwu Onyeka Frank is a Nigerian professional footballer who plays as a midfielder for Premier League club Brentford and the Nigeria national team. He is affectionately nicknamed ‘Frank The Tank” from his teammates and coaches for his strength on the ball.