List of Famous people born on January 1st

Rao Yi is a Chinese neurobiologist. A graduate of the University of California, San Francisco, Rao held a Helen Hay Whitney fellowship at Harvard University and was on the faculty of Washington University in St. Louis and Northwestern University before moving back to China to take up the deanship of Peking University's School of Life Sciences in 2007. He is currently the director the IDG/McGovern Institute for Brain Research at Peking University. He took office as the President of the Capital Medical University on June 25, 2019.

Bahaa Hariri is a Lebanese-Saudi billionaire. He is the eldest son of assassinated former Lebanese Prime Minister Rafic Hariri from his father's first marriage with Nida Bustani, an Iraqi. He is the brother of former Lebanese Prime Minister Saad Hariri. As of 2011 his wealth was estimated at $2.5 billion, making him the 459th richest person in the world. In the 2015 fiscal year, he donated over one million dollars to the Atlantic Council, an American think tank.

Santiago Sierra is a Spanish artist, known for performance art and installation art. Much of his work deals with the topic of social inequities. He lives in Madrid.

Nurettin Demirtaş is a former Kurdish politician of the Democratic Society Party (DTP) in Turkey and a member of the Kurdistan Workers' Party (PKK).

Jamaan Al-Harbash is a member of the Kuwaiti National Assembly, representing the second district.

Jean-Philippe Rykiel is a French composer, arranger, and musician, primarily a keyboard player. He has been blind since his birth, a result of negligence in the hospital incubator, and is the son of fashion designer Sonia Rykiel.

Hüseyin Avni Mutlu is a Turkish civil servant. He served as the Governor of Istanbul Province between 2010 and 2014.

Mustafa El Khani is a Syrian actor with kurdish roots. El Khani graduated from the Higher Institute for Dramatic Arts in Damascus. He played leading roles in several TV series for several TV channels in the Middle East. He used to be the son-in-law of Bashar Jaafari.

Sidiki Bakaba is an actor, scenario writer and director from Côte d'Ivoire.

Lu Wei is a former Chinese politician. He served as the deputy head of the Propaganda Department of the Communist Party of China, the head of the General Office of the Central Leading Group for Internet Security and Informatization from April 2013 to June 2016. Lu was previously Vice-Mayor of Beijing and the head of the Beijing Party organization's propaganda department, among other posts. Lu Wei was named by Time magazine as one of the world's 100 most influential people in 2015.