List of Famous people born on January 1st

Orhan Miroğlu is a Turkish politician of Mhallami descent from his father's side, and of Kurdish descent from his mother's side. He is a columnist for the Taraf daily newspaper as well as Today's Zaman.

Cem Gelinoğlu is a Turkish actor and screenwriter. He is the creator of the Ali Kundilli series of comedy movies.

Petar "Pero" Brzica was a Croatian mass murderer. Brzica became a member of the fascist Ustaše movement and committed his atrocities at the Jasenovac concentration camp during World War II.

Junko Minagawa is a Japanese voice actress affiliated with Haikyo. Her best-known role is Ryoma Echizen, the title character in The Prince of Tennis anime series. She sang some of the show's theme songs, insert songs, and character singles, some of which have charted in Oricon's single rankings. Other major roles include Ayaka Yukihiro in the Negima series, Akira in Aria, Cao Chun Yan in Fighting Beauty Wulong, Cornelia Li Britannia in Code Geass, Khamsin in Shakugan no Shana, Yoshitaka Nakabayashi in He Is My Master, Haruka Tenoh/Sailor Uranus in Sailor Moon Crystal, and Yun in Akatsuki no Yona.

Denise Perrier is a French actress, former model and beauty queen who won Miss World 1953. She now goes by "Denise Perrier Lanfranchi." She is still the only French woman to have won the Miss World title.

Sérgio Nascimento de Camargo is a Brazilian journalist, known for his conservative positions and for having assumed, in 2019, the presidency of Fundação Cultural Palmares, a Brazilian body for the promotion of Afro-Brazilian culture.

Joerg Stadler is a German actor. He played a captured German soldier, nicknamed "Steamboat Willie", in Saving Private Ryan (1998).

Süreyya Serdengeçti is a Turkish economist and former Governor of the Central Bank of Turkey. He is currently working as an instructor in Turkish and world economics at the TOBB University of Economics and Technology in Ankara, Turkey.

Goa Song is currently President of South China University of Technology, China and a professor in Chemistry.

Wang Yanyi, is a Chinese immunologist. In 2018, she became the director general at the Wuhan Institute of Virology and the deputy director for Wuhan in the China Zhi Gong Party.