List of Famous people born on January 1st

Hasan Polatkan was a Turkish politician and Minister of Labor and Finance, who was executed by hanging after the coup d'état in 1960 along with two other cabinet members.

Lara Juliette Sanders is a German director, producer and TV personality. She first gained media attention after winning a lifetime achievement award for her period-spanning feature documentary "Celebration of Flight".

Kōdai Umetsu is a professional Japanese baseball player. He plays pitcher for the Chunichi Dragons.

Lann Hornscheidt is a German academic active in the fields of gender studies and linguistics. Hornscheidt is non-binary.

Timna Brauer is an Austrian-Israeli singer-songwriter, and the daughter of painter, writer and singer Arik Brauer. She collaborates with the Israeli pianist Elias Meiri. Both have Israeli roots. They are the parents of daughter Jasmin and son Jonathan.

Yoshiyuki Kōno was a survivor of the Matsumoto incident, a sarin attack that killed eight people and sickened many more in Matsumoto, Japan, on the evening of June 27, 1994 and the following morning.

Sakti Wahyu Trenggono is an Indonesian politician. As of 23 December 2020, he serves as Minister of Maritime Affairs and Fisheries in the Onward Indonesia Cabinet of Prime Minister Joko Widodo.

Ma Guoqiang is a Chinese politician, engineer, and business executive. He had served as Deputy Communist Party Secretary of Hubei province and Communist Party Secretary of Wuhan, the capital of Hubei, from 2018 to 2020. Ma previously served as Chairman of Baowu Group, China's largest steelmaker. He is an alternate member of the 19th Central Committee of the Communist Party of China and was a delegate to the 8th National People's Congress.

Maan Abdul Wahed Al-Sanea is a Saudi businessman of Kuwaiti origin. In 1980, he founded the Saad Group, a conglomerate with operations in construction & engineering, real estate development, financial services and investments. He has also founded a private hospital, several educational facilities and a support center for special-needs children and their families. It is alleged that he funded all this by defrauding his wife's family, the Al Gosaibis.

Uluç Bayraktar is a Turkish director. He graduated from Ege University with degrees in cinema and television. He is known as the director of, içerde,Ezel, Menekşe ile Halil and Karadayi which has won four awards. He started his director career as assistant to Çağan Irmak.