List of Famous people born on January 1st

Ahmet İlhan Özek is a Turkish footballer who plays as a winger for Altınordu.

Yujiro Kawamata is a Japanese mathematician working in algebraic geometry.

Valery Vasilevich Kozlov is a Russian mathematician and mathematical physicist.

Ahmed Mohammed Haroun is one of five Sudanese men wanted by the International Criminal Court (ICC) for war crimes and crimes against humanity in Darfur. Despite international pressure on the government of Sudan to surrender him to the ICC, Haroun served as Sudan's Minister of State for Humanitarian Affairs until May 2009 when he was appointed to the governorship of South Kordofan. In September 2007, he was appointed to lead an investigation into human rights violations in Darfur. In July 2013 he resigned as Governor of South Kordofan, and was reappointed by Omar al-Bashir as Governor of North Kordofan. On 1 March 2019, President Omar al-Bashir handed over the running of the country's leading political party, the National Congress, to him. He was arrested in April 2019 by local authorities in Sudan following a coup which overthrew al-Bashir.

Dana Ron Goldreich is a computer scientist, a professor of electrical engineering at the Tel Aviv University, Israel. Prof. Ron is one of the pioneers of research in property testing, and a leading researcher in that area.

Emad Hajjaj is a Palestinian-Jordanian editorial cartoonist. He is best known for his work in Al Rai and the Jordan Times daily newspapers.