List of Famous people born on January 1st

Hiroaki Mitsuya is a Japanese virologist famous for his role in discovery of the anti-HIV drug zidovudine (AZT) as well as other anti-AIDS drugs including didanosine (ddI) and zalcitabine (ddC).

Rezső Kasztner, also known as Rudolf Israel Kastner, was a Hungarian-Israeli journalist and lawyer who became known for having helped Jews escape from occupied Europe during the Holocaust. He was assassinated in 1957 after an Israeli court accused him of having collaborated with the Nazis.

Ildefonso Falcones de Sierra is a Spanish lawyer and writer from Barcelona.

Mayra Lizbeth Rosales is an American woman known for being, at one point, the heaviest living woman. At her heaviest, she weighed 470 kg (1,036 lb). She came to prominence in March 2008 when her sister was jailed for murdering her two-year-old nephew, a murder to which Rosales had originally falsely confessed. She decided to get her life back in order to get custody of her sister's children, who had no parents to take care of them at that time.

Alan Taylor is an American television and film director. He is known for his work on TV shows such as Lost, The West Wing, Six Feet Under, Sex and the City, The Sopranos, Game of Thrones, Boardwalk Empire, Deadwood, and Mad Men. He also directed films such as Palookaville, Thor: The Dark World, and Terminator Genisys. In 2007 Taylor won the Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Directing for a Drama Series for The Sopranos episode "Kennedy and Heidi". In 2008 and 2018 he was also nominated in the same category for the Mad Men episode "Smoke Gets in Your Eyes" and the Game of Thrones episode "Beyond the Wall" respectively.

Aloisia Wagner, better known by her stage name Violetta, was born without legs or arms with a condition known as tetra-amelia syndrome. She was born in Hemelingen, Germany, and had a lengthy career in sideshow performance.

Miyuri Shimabukuro is a Japanese voice actress from Okinawa Prefecture who is affiliated with Office Osawa. After debuting as a voice actress in 2017, she played her first main roles in 2018 as Yuuna Yunohana in the anime series Yuuna and the Haunted Hot Springs, Nagisa Araki in the anime series Hanebado! and Inca Kasugatani in Fire Force.

Paulo Sérgio Rosa, usually known as Viola, is a former Brazilian footballer who played as a forward. He was given his nickname in his youth, which was a reference to the brand–name of his first pair of football boots.

Mansour bin Mutaib Al Saud was the minister of municipal and rural affairs of Saudi Arabia and is a member of House of Saud. He is a minister of state.

Kiyotaka Mitsugi is a Japanese actor. His career has centered on television tokusatsu and jidaigeki. He starred in the 1967–68 television series Kōsoku Esper and the 1973 series Shirojishi Kamen, and played a supporting role as the ninja Saizō in Series III, Episodes 1–57, of Abarenbō Shōgun. In NHK's eleventh Taiga drama, Kunitori Monogatari, Mitsugi portrayed Akechi Mitsuharu. He appeared regularly in Episodes 436–509 of Tokusō Saizensen. A frequent guest actor, he made six appearances on Ōedo Sōsamō and four on Zenigata Heiji, three on Taiyō ni Hoero!', and two on Happyaku Yachō Yume Nikki. Fans of the tokusatsu Chikyuu Sentai Fiveman know him as Dr. Hoshikawa. The producers of Abarenbō Shōgun selected him to reprise his role in the 500th episode special, and again to portray the daimyō Tokugawa Munenao in Series VI.