List of Famous people born on January 1st

Umran Savaş İnan is a scientist at Koç University and Stanford University in the field of geophysics and very low frequency radio science. He received his PhD from Stanford in 1977 under the tutelage of Robert Helliwell. Since Fall 2009, İnan has been the president of Koç University.

Rita Brantalou, stage name of Jacques Pradel, was a French humorist and musician.

Hu Changsheng is a Chinese politician currently serving as Communist Party Secretary of Gansu and Chairman of the People's Congress of Gansu Province. He joined the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) in January 1986, and entered the workforce in July of that same year. He is an alternate member of the 19th CCP Central Committee.

Rizgar Mohammed Amin is the former chief judge of the Iraqi Special Tribunal's Al-Dujail trial. He is the only judge whose name was revealed on the trial's opening on 19 October 2005, the names of the other four judges and all but two of his four colleagues faces not allowed to be shown during the televised portions of the trial.(Telegraph.co.uk - 12:30AM GMT 15 January 2006)

Hiroyuki Sakaguchi is a Japanese baseball player. He won a bronze medal at the 1992 Summer Olympics.