List of Famous people born on January 1st

Juma al Majid is an Emirati businessman, political adviser, and philanthropist. Al Majid is ranked among the Richest Arabs in the world.

Billy Ray is an American screenwriter and film director. He began writing for television and movies in 1994 with Color of Night. He has written numerous films including Captain Phillips (2013) and Richard Jewell (2019).

Julieanne Newbould is an Australian actress who first came to prominence in the 1970s.

Mohammad Iqbal Azizi is an ethnic Pashtun politician in Afghanistan, who served as Governor of Laghman from March 2010 to September 2012. He previously served as head of the Education Department in Nangarhar Province.

Bilal Ag Acherif is the Secretary-General of the National Movement for the Liberation of Azawad (MNLA) and president of a briefly independent Azawad.

Guido Goldman was a Swiss-born American academic and philanthropist known for advancing post–World War II US-Germany academic and cultural relations. He was a co-founder of the German Marshall Fund and also set up the Center for European Studies at Harvard University.