List of Famous people born on January 1st

Curdin Orlik is a Swiss professional wrestler who competes in Schwingen, and an agronomist. Orlik came out as gay in March 2020, making him the first athlete in the sport of Schwingen to come out as gay, and also the first openly gay male active in Swiss professional sports.

Reinhard Alois Erös is a medical doctor and former Colonel of the German army. Since 1998 he has been running the Kinderhilfe Afghanistan a German NGO dedicated to helping the children of eastern Afghanistan. The organization builds and runs local and high schools, orphanages, medical centers, computer education centers and professional schools. He is helped by his wife Annette and his five children, and lives in Mintraching in Bavaria, and he spends large parts of the year in Afghanistan.

Nazik Hariri is the widow of former Lebanese Prime Minister Rafik Hariri. She married him in 1976. Nazik is of Palestinian origin.

Mai-Lan Aquarella Morgane Chapiron is a French-Vietnamese artist. She released her first solo album Mai Lan in 2012. In 2016, she appeared on M83's album Junk, contributing with vocals on four tracks, including the single "Go!". In 2017, she released her next major work, the Vampire EP. Her next full-length album, Autopilote, debuted on January 19, 2018.

Chiang Hsiao-chang is the only daughter of Chiang Ching-kuo, the President of the Republic of China in Taiwan from 1978 to 1988. Her mother is Faina Ipatyevna Vakhreva, also known as Chiang Fang-liang. She had one older brother, Hsiao-wen, and two younger brothers, Hsiao-wu and Hsiao-yung. She is the only living member of Chiang Ching-kuo's legitimate children, and was the only one among the siblings who could converse in Russian with their mother. She also has twin half-brothers, Winston Chang and John Chiang, with whom she shares the same father. She attended Mills College and was featured in LIFE during her college years. She was married to Yu Yang-ho until his death in 2010; he was the son of former Taiwan defense minister Yu Ta-wei. She and Yu have one son, Theodore Yu Tsu-sheng.

Bernd Grimm is a German product designer, architectural model builder and artist. He became known through the creation of architectural models of historical and antique buildings. Ten of his models belong to the collection of the architectural icons of the architect Oswald Mathias Ungers.

Dietrich Wagner is a retired engineer who suffered damage to his eyes during the 2010 Stuttgart 21 project protests due to the use of water cannons. He was 66 at the time.

Tamer Yiğit is a Turkish actor. He starred as Ertuğrul Gazi in the history based and adventure series Kuruluş: Osman (2019). Throughout his acting career Yiğit has been a recipient of numerous accolades.

Tata Amaral is a Brazilian director, writer, producer and actress. She has won various awards across South America, including 'Best director' and 'Best film'.

Reem Bassiouney is an Egyptian author and professor of sociolinguistics, currently teaching at The American University in Cairo. She has written several novels and a number of short stories and won the 2009 Sawiris Foundation Literary Prize for Young Writers for her novel Dr. Hanaa. While a substantial amount of her fiction has yet to be translated into English, her novel The Pistachio Seller was published by Syracuse University Press in 2009, and won the 2009 King Fahd Center for Middle East and Islamic Studies Translation of Arabic Literature Award. Bassiouney also won Naguib Mahfouz Award from Egypt's Supreme Council for Culture in the best Egyptian novel category for her best selling novel, The Mamluk Trilogy.