List of Famous people born on January 1st

Raymond Siu Chak-yee, is the current Commissioner of Police of the Hong Kong Police Force since 25 June 2021. He previously served as Deputy Commissioner of Police (Operations) of the Hong Kong Police Force under his predecessor Chris Tang.

Daniel Behle is a German classical composer and operatic tenor. He has performed at international opera houses and festivals, and has recorded both operas and Lieder recitals.

Jerry Lo also known as DJ Jerry, is a singer, songwriter and DJ of hands up, hard trance, hip-hop and house, who was very popular in Taiwan in the 1990s and the 2000s. He was one of the first American born Taiwanese singers to become famous in Taiwan, along with the L.A. Boyz. During the late 1990s, he changed his style into electronic music and started going by the name of DJ Jerry.

Mamdouh Abbas is an Egyptian businessman. He was appointed the Zamalek chairman twice. His first appointment stretched from 2006 to 2008. He returned to the position for the second time when he was elected president of the club in May 2009. He resigned from Zamalek in early November over a contract dispute. He managed a wide range of business companies in which their capital ranged between 80 and US$200 million.

Isabel Franco may refer to:

• Isabel Franco Sánchez, Spanish journalist and politician
• Isabel Franco Carmona, Spanish Podemos politician

Helga Nowitzki is a German former international basketball player. She is the mother of Dirk and Silke Nowitzki.

Saud mukhtar al-Hashimi is a Saudi Arabian doctor graduated from king abdulaziz university in 1988.

Dominique Prieur is a French military officer who was convicted of manslaughter over her part in the sinking of the Rainbow Warrior. Prieur was also the first female French secret agent.

María Xiao Yao is a Portuguese-Spanish table tennis player. Born in Barcelona to Chinese parents and raised in Madeira, she represented Portugal before 2012 and Spain afterwards. She was Portugal's reserve player for the 2012 Summer Olympics.

Ricardo Hausmann is the former Director of the Center for International Development currently leading the Center for International Development’s Growth Lab and is a Professor of the Practice of Economic Development at the John F. Kennedy School of Government at Harvard University. He is also a former Venezuelan Minister of Planning and former Head of the Presidential Office of Coordination and Planning (1992–1993). He co-introduced several regularly used concepts in economics including original sin, growth diagnostics, self-discovery, dark matter, the product space, and economic complexity.