List of Famous people born on January 1st

Mohammad Ibrahim al-Shaar is a Syrian military leader who was later named Syrian Minister of the Interior.

Chang Ying-Tai, born in 1965, is an award-winning novelist and a professor in the Department of Humanities and Social Sciences at the National Taiwan University of Science and Technology. She devoted significant effort to pursuing her career as a writer and worked diligently on literature. During her early life, she had to overcome family upheavals and financial challenges resulting from unemployment after completing graduate school degrees. These experiences and life struggles have significantly influenced her diverse writing styles and contributed to her current achievements.

Mark Victor is a screenwriter. He co-wrote Poltergeist (1982), Poltergeist II: The Other Side (1986), Marked for Death (1990), and Cool World (1992).