List of Famous people born on January 1st

Karl Kruszelnicki, often referred to as "Dr Karl", is an Australian science communicator and popularizer, who is known as an author, and as a science commentator on Australian radio and television.

Barış Kılıç is a Turkish actor.

David Nahmad is a Monegasque billionaire and former fine art dealer. A descendant of a Syrian Jewish art family residing in Monaco, he and his relations are perhaps the single biggest buying force in fine art.

Müjde Uzman is a Turkish actress.

Kerry Max Cook is an American former Death Row inmate who was wrongfully convicted of the rape and murder of 21-year-old Linda Jo Edwards in 1977.

Deborah Chow is a Canadian filmmaker, television director and screenwriter. Two of her first short films, Daypass (2002) and The Hill (2004) have both won awards at various international film festivals. She is best known for her first feature film, which she wrote and directed, The High Cost of Living. Chow directed various projects for television, including the TV movie adaption of Flowers in the Attic and episodes of the series Copper, Murdoch Mysteries, Reign, Beauty and the Beast, and Mr. Robot. Chow is also a director on the Star Wars series The Mandalorian and the Obi-Wan Kenobi series for Disney+.

Anil Kanti "Neil" Basu, is a senior British police officer. Since March 2018, he has served as Assistant Commissioner Specialist Operations of the Metropolitan Police Service, and the National Police Chiefs Council lead for counter terrorism policing.

Matur Maker is a South Sudanese-born Australian basketball player for the Rio Grande Valley Vipers of the NBA G League. He moved to Australia in his childhood and played for various prep schools in Canada and the United States, before forgoing college basketball. He is the younger brother of National Basketball Association (NBA) player Thon Maker and the cousin of basketball player Makur Maker.

Theodore Hopf is an American academic and a leading figure in constructivism in international relations theory. He was a Provost Chair Professor in the Department of Political Science at the Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences, National University of Singapore (NUS). He was also jointly appointed as Research Cluster Leader on Identities at the Asia Research Institute (ARI) at the National University of Singapore (NUS).

Tuan Ibrahim bin Tuan Man is a Malaysian politician who has served as the Minister of Environment and Water in the Perikatan Nasional (PN) administration led by Prime Minister Muhyiddin Yassin since March 2020, Member of Parliament (MP) for Kubang Kerian since May 2018 and Deputy President of the Malaysian Islamic Party (PAS), a component party of PN coalition, since June 2015. He served as Member of the Pahang State Legislative Assembly (MLA) for Jengka from November 1999 to March 2004.