List of Famous people born on January 1st

Yoshihiro Kawaoka is a virologist specializing in the study of the influenza and Ebola viruses. He holds a professorship in virology in the Department of Pathobiological Sciences at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, USA, and at the University of Tokyo, Japan.

So Joo-yeon is a South Korean model and actress under LSAC Model. She starred in the Korean television series Dr. Romantic 2 (2020).

Filiz Taçbaş is a Turkish film and television series actress and former national tennis player.

Sineb El Masrar is a Moroccan-German author, journalist, and Islamic feminist.

Paula Tsui Siu-fung is a Cantopop singer in Hong Kong, with a career spanning over 50 years. She was affiliated with the TVB television station until the mid-1990s and has performed for Asia Television on several occasions since 1995.

Cheng Huan, QC, SC is a prominent barrister in Hong Kong.

Jérôme Ferrari is a French writer and translator born in 1968 in Paris. He won the 2012 Prix Goncourt for his novel Le Sermon sur la chute de Rome.

Katajun Amirpur is a German-Iranian professor of Islamic Studies at Hamburg University.

Kelvin Jones is a British–Zimbabwean singer-songwriter. Since 2016 he lives in Germany.

Keiichiro Kobayashi born 1966 is a Japanese macroeconomist at the Keio University. His areas of expertise are Endogenous Growth Theory, General Equilibrium, Business Cycles, Bad Debt Problem, Debt Control Policy, Macropolitical Economy. He received a Ph.D. in Economics in 1998 from the University of Chicago. His dissertation "The Division of Labor, the Extent of the Market, and Economic Growth" was written under supervision of Robert Lucas, an America's prominent economist and a Nobel Prize Winner in Economics in 1995. Kobayashi was awarded Nikkei Economics Book Award in 2001 and Osaragi Jiro Critics Award in 2002 both for Trap of the Japanese Economy.