List of Famous people born on January 1st

Mahmut Nedim Uslu is a businessman, former basketball player/coach and Vice President, General Secretary and Press Officer of Turkish multi-sport club Fenerbahçe. Besides his native Turkish he speaks English, Russian and Turkmen fluently.

Richard Warren Roberts is an inactive Senior United States District Judge of the United States District Court for the District of Columbia.

Kate Lehrer is an American writer, novelist and book reviewer from Washington, D.C., and a panelist on the Diane Rehm Book Club on National Public Radio. She was married to fellow writer and journalist Jim Lehrer from 1960 until his death in 2020.

Ashley Revell is an English gambler. In 2004 he sold all his possessions, including his clothes, and gambled US$135,300 on a single spin of a roulette wheel in the Plaza Hotel & Casino, Las Vegas. Revell even changed his name by deed poll to "Ashley Blue Square Revell" after the UK online bookmaker contributed to his gambling fund. He raised additional cash through car boot sales and auctions.

Pablo Lescano is an Argentine singer, composer, keyboardist, and leader of Cumbia villera group Damas Gratis from 2000. He is considered by many as the founder of the Cumbia villera sub-genre.

Hugo Sigman is an Argentine businessman who is the founder, CEO and –jointly with his wife, Biochemist Silvia Gold— the only shareholder of Grupo Insud, a business group with presence in the fields of pharmaceuticals, agroforestry, cinema, nature and design.

Merryn Rosemary Somerset Webb, is the Editor in chief of UK personal finance magazine MoneyWeek, writes for the Financial Times and Saga Magazine and is a radio and television commentator on financial matters.

Ijaz Ahmed Shah is a Pakistani politician, former officer of the Pakistan Army, and a former Pakistan Inter-Services Intelligence (ISI) officer. He is currently serving as the Federal Minister for Narcotics Control, in office since 11 December 2020. Previously, he served as the Federal Minister for interior from April 2019 to 11 December 2020 and Minister of Parliamentary Affairs from March 2019 to April 2019. He has been the member of the National Assembly of Pakistan since August 2018.

Noriko Osumi is a Japanese neuroscientist. She was appointed as the Vice-president of Tohoku University in 2018, a Professor of Developmental Neuroscience, and the Director of the Core Center for Neuroscience at that university. Osumi also presided at the Molecular Biology Society of Japan, 2013-2014.

Hüseyin Avni Coş is a Turkish bureucrat and the former governor of Sakarya Province in Turkey.