List of Famous people born on January 1st

Eugene Wu is a Taiwanese business executive. He led the Shin Kong Group and several affiliated subsidiaries.

Juan Moreira is a well-known figure in the history of Argentina. An outlaw, gaucho and folk-hero, he is considered one of the most renowned Argentinian rural bandits.

Grand Ayatollah Sheikh Isa Ahmed Qassim is Bahrain's leading Shia cleric and a politician. He is the spiritual leader of Al Wefaq, Bahrain's biggest opposition society. He was the leader and is the founders of Islamic Enlightenment Institution.

Genrikh Samoilovich Lyushkov was an officer in the Soviet secret police and its highest-ranking defector. A high-ranking officer of the NKVD, he played a role in perpetrating Stalin's Great Purge. When, in 1938, he suspected he would soon fall victim to the purge, he fled to the Japanese. Thereafter, he acted as a major source of intelligence for Imperial Japan about the Soviet Union. At the end of World War II, he was killed by the Japanese in order to prevent him from falling back into Soviet hands.

Sheikh Jalal al-Din Ali al-Sagheer is an Iraqi politician and a former member of parliament in the Islamic Supreme Council of Iraq. Prior to the 2003 US-led Invasion of Iraq he was the chairman of the Paris Mosque in France. He is the imam of the Shi'a Buratha Mosque in Baghdad.

Emily Bolton is a Dutch actress raised in England and the Netherlands.

Gérard Biard is a French journalist. He is the editor‑in‑chief of the satirical French news magazine, Charlie Hebdo.

Jiro Aichi is a Japanese politician of the Liberal Democratic Party, a member of the House of Councillors in the Diet. A native of Sendai, Miyagi and graduate of Chuo University, he was elected for the first time in 2001. He is affiliated to the revisionist lobby Nippon Kaigi.

Anas Khalid Al Saleh is a Kuwaiti politician who has been serving as deputy prime minister since January 2015, and acting oil minister since November 2015. He also served as minister of finance from January 2014 to December 2017. He also served as minister of commerce and industry from February 2012 to January 2014.

Barry Edward Le Va was an American sculptor and installation artist. Trained in his native California, he lived and worked in New York City. Le Va was among the leading figures of post-studio and process art to have emerged in the late 1960s. His abstract sculptures, installations, drawings, and editioned works are featured in major art collections around the world.