List of Famous people born on January 1st

João Pedro Pais is a singer and musician from Portugal.

Claude Hagège is a French linguist.

Mayuko Watanabe is an award-winning Japanese journalist and media scholar specialized in media literacy, gender and sexuality. She has been a Senior Researcher at Keio University Research Institute. Her research interest through nearly 20 years of career including as a TV news reporter has been the way of regulatory policy of obscene expressions. She has published research and provided media commentary on the topics of media communication and literacy of Japanese obscene content.

Michel Collon is a Belgian writer, and journalist for the journal of the Marxist Workers' Party of Belgium and for his website Investig’Action. He is well known for exposing propaganda in the media, Zionism, the Western world and the United States.

Marilú Martens is a Peruvian politician. She was Minister of Education of Peru from December 18, 2016, to September 17, 2017.

Hoda ElMaraghy is an Egyptian-Canadian professor and director of the Intelligent Manufacturing Systems (IMS) Center at the University of Windsor in Windsor, Ontario which she founded together with her husband Prof. Waguih ElMaraghy in July 1994. In 1994, she was the first woman to serve as dean of engineering at a Canadian university. She is also the first Canadian woman to obtain a Ph.D. in mechanical engineering. She was appointed as Canada Research Chair (CRC) in manufacturing systems in 2002. She has published more than 450 articles. She received the order of Ontario in 2015.

Hashim Djojohadikusumo is an Indonesian entrepreneur and politician.

Rajkumar Santoshi is an Indian film director, producer and screenwriter of Hindi films. Having received several accolades including three National Film Awards and six Filmfare Awards, he made his directorial debut with the crime film Ghayal (1990), which won him the National Film Award for Best Popular Film Providing Wholesome Entertainment as well as the Filmfare Award for Best Director. He next directed the thrillers Damini (1993) and Ghatak: Lethal (1996). All these three financially successful films starred Sunny Deol, Amrish Puri and Meenakshi Seshadri; the second of these garnered him a second Filmfare Best Director Award and the latter fetched him the Filmfare Best Screenplay Award as well as a Filmfare Best Director Award nomination. During this period, Santoshi also received praise for directing the comedy Andaz Apna Apna (1994), which though a box office flop has attained cult status, and the major success Barsaat (1995), that marked the film debut of Bobby Deol and Twinkle Khanna. In 2000, he wrote dialogues of the film Pukar which earned him the Nargis Dutt Award for Best Feature Film on National Integration. He followed it by directing two moderate commercial successes—the biopic The Legend of Bhagat Singh (2002) and the action thriller Khakee (2004)—both of which earned him Best Director nominations at Filmfare. His highest-grossing grossing film came in 2009 with over ₹1.2 billion (US$17 million)-earning romantic comedy Ajab Prem Ki Ghazab Kahani starring Ranbir Kapoor and Katrina Kaif.

Adil Karaismailoğlu is a Turkish mechanical engineer, civil servant and current Minister of Transport and Infrastructure.