List of Famous people born on January 1st

Zad Moultaka is a Lebanese composer, pianist and visual artist. He attended the Conservatoire de Paris and has played at the Baalbeck International Festival. He worked with Fadia Tomb El-Hage in his 2009 album Visions. Moultaka developed a visual practice and, in 2017, was the artist of the pavilion of Lebanon at the Venice Biennale with ŠamaŠ, a project combining musical composition and architectural intervention.

Hachiro Sugimoto is a Japanese chemist and pharmacologist, known for his discovery of Donepezil.

Josep Maria Pou i Serra is a Catalan Spanish film, theatre and television actor.

María Gabriela Hernández Gómez, also known as Gaby Hernández, is a Chilean theater, film and television actress with a long active career.

Lamar Gant is an American world record-holding powerlifter. He competed with idiopathic scoliosis. He was inducted into the International Powerlifting Federation Hall of Fame in 1980.

Mishaal bin Saud Al Saud was the governor of the Najran Province from April 1997 to November 2008 and is a member of House of Saud.

Alexandra Blanca Vela Puga is an Ecuadorian lawyer and politician originally from El Salvador. She is currently a dean of the Faculty of Law at the University of the Americas Ecuador.

Pablo Soto Bravo is a Spanish software developer. He was municipal councillor of Madrid from 2015 to 2019.

Kendall Jamaal Waston Manley is a Costa Rican professional footballer who plays as a defender for Saprissa and the Costa Rica national football team.

Muhammad Othman Elkhosht (al-khasht) is the president of Cairo University. He is a professor of philosophy of religion and contemporary philosophy at Faculty of Arts, Cairo University. He is a leading authority on modern Islam, and a member of the Association for Intercultural Philosophy, which encourages a dialogue among philosophers from all over the world. He held several positions including the Vice President of Education and Students Affairs at Cairo University. He is also a member of local and international committees: the Interfaith Dialogue Center in Al-Azhar, the Supreme Council for Islamic Affairs, Awqaf Academy, the Supreme Council of Naif Arab University for Security Sciences and the Science and Innovation Committee of Shanghai Jiao Tong University.