List of Famous people born on January 1st

Ali Akbar Mohtashamipur or Mohtashami was an Iranian Shia cleric who was active in the 1979 Iranian Revolution and later became interior minister of the Islamic Republic of Iran. He is "seen as a founder of the Hezbollah movement in Lebanon" and one of the "radical elements advocating the export of the revolution," in the Iranian clerical hierarchy.

Fabrice Nicolino is a French journalist born in Paris in 1955.

Mehmet Muharrem Kasapoğlu is a Turkish civil servant and current Minister of Youth and Sports.

Brandon Walters is an Indigenous Australian actor known for his performance as Nullah in the 2008 film Australia.

Peter Andrew McCullough is an American cardiologist. He was vice chief of internal medicine at Baylor University Medical Center and a professor at Texas A&M University.

Philipp Blom is a historian, novelist, journalist and translator.

Jean-Noël Guérini is a member of the Senate of France, representing the Bouches-du-Rhône department since 1998. He was the president of the General council of Bouches-du-Rhône from 1998 to 2015 and member of the municipal council of Marseille since 1977. He was a member of the Socialist Party.

Boris Schommers is a German football manager who last managed 1. FC Kaiserslautern.

Princess Dina Mired is a Jordanian humanitarian and health activist. She is a leading global advocate for Cancer Control and Non-Communicable Diseases (NCDs). She was the President of the Union for International Cancer Control (UICC) from 2018 to 2020, and was the first Arab Muslim elected to lead in such a prestigious global post. Princess Dina is the former Director-General of the King Hussein Cancer Foundation.

Emily Atef is a French-Iranian director, screenwriter and producer based in Berlin.