List of Famous people born on January 1st

Maja Hoffmann is a Swiss art collector, art patron, documentary producer, impresario, and businesswoman. She is the founder and president of the LUMA Foundation.

Chan Kin-por, GBS, JP is a member of the Legislative Council of Hong Kong. He is chairman of the Legco Finance Committee.

Josh Lacey is a British writer. He has written several children’s books and one book for adults, God is Brazilian, a biography of Charles Miller, the man who introduced football to Brazil.

Mika Launis is a Finnish illustrator and graphic designer who studied graphic design at the University of Art and Design in Helsinki. For his final project, he did the illustrations for a children's book written in Northern Sámi. Launis has illustrated several books, mainly children's books. In addition, he has provided illustrations for book covers, of which his most well-known are probably the covers of the Finnish versions of the Harry Potter books. Some of his works have also been published as postage stamps. Launis was the 1997 recipient of the Rudolf Koivu Award, which is awarded to illustrations in children's and young adult books. Furthermore, he won the competition to design Finland's first Euro postage stamp.

Heidi Hollinger is a political photographer and documentary presenter.

Gesche Joost is a German design researcher.

Namık Kemal Zeybek is a Turkish politician and was leader of the Democratic Party. A former civil servant and district governor, he was government minister in different cabinets.

Ricardo Dias de Lima Ventura da Costa, more commonly known by his stagename Richie Campbell, is a Portuguese R&B, dancehall and reggae singer. He is considered a leading figure in the Portuguese music scene.

Cornelia Lüddemann is a German politician of Alliance 90/The Greens. Since 2016, she has served as chairwoman of the Greens parliamentary group in the Landtag of Saxony-Anhalt. She previously served as leader of the party's state branch from 2011 to 2016. She is the Greens lead candidate for the 2021 Saxony-Anhalt state election.

Stanley Ng Chau-pei is a Hong Kong pro-Beijing politician and trade unionist and the incumbent President and former Chairman of the Hong Kong Federation of Trade Unions (HKFTU), the largest trade union in Hong Kong, and also a Hong Kong deputy to the National People's Congress.