List of Famous people born on January 1st

Syed Babar Ali, Order of British Empire is a Pakistani businessman, philanthropist and former caretaker Finance Minister of Pakistan.

Reem bint Mohammed Al Saud is a Saudi Arabian photographer, political journalist, and gallery owner, who lives in Jeddah and Paris.

Susan Devlin Peard is a former badminton player who represented both the US and Ireland in international competition. She is the daughter of J. Frank Devlin, an Irish badminton great, who moved his family to the United States in the late 1930s. She is the older sister of Judy Devlin Hashman, with whom she won numerous international women's doubles championships, including six titles at the prestigious All-England Championships. The Devlin sisters won a record ten United States women's doubles titles between 1953 and 1966. They also formed a doubles pairing that won all of its individual matches for the world champion U.S. Uber Cup teams of 1957 and 1960. In 1960 Susan Devlin married Irish badminton player Frank Peard and thereafter resided in Ireland. She won two Irish national women's doubles titles and played Uber Cup for Ireland in the '62-'63 and '65-'66 campaigns. In 1976 she was inducted into the U.S. Badminton Hall of Fame, now known as the Walk of Fame. In 2009, both Susan and Judy were inducted into the Goucher College athletics Hall of Fame.

Sarah Valentina Winkhaus is a German television presenter, who presents in German, Italian and English.