List of Famous people born on January 1st

Matilda Brown is an Australian actress, writer and director.

Francisca Ballesteros is a Spanish woman who poisoned to death her first baby, a five month old daughter, in 1990. Fourteen years later, in 2004, she killed her husband and second daughter because she had met a man on the Internet and wanted to run away from her parenting and marriage to be with her new found lover. Ballesteros then tried to poison her twelve-year-old son, although he survived after eight months of recovery. Following her son's poisoning Spanish authorities finally arrested her. She was convicted on three counts of murder and one count of attempted murder and sentenced to eighty-four years in prison in 2005.

Nefise Karatay is a Turkish television personality, presenter, actress, former top model and beauty pageant winner. She is known for being an anchor on CNN Türk.

Aguila Saleh Issa is a Libyan jurist and politician who is President of the Libyan House of Representatives since 5 August 2014. He is also a representative of the town of Al Qubbah, in the east of the country.

Angélica Liddell is a Spanish writer, theatre director and actor.

Hüseyin Çapkın, is a Turkish civil servant. He was lately the police chief of Istanbul Province.

Romain Sicard is a French professional racing cyclist, who currently rides for UCI ProTeam Total Direct Énergie.

Rima Khalaf Hunaidi is a national of Jordan who served as Executive Secretary of the United Nations Economic and Social Commission for Western Asia (ESCWA) from 2010 to 2017. She resigned from this position in March 2017, following a request from the UN Secretary General António Guterres to withdraw a report that accused Israel of establishing an apartheid regime.

Kerry Norton is a British actress and singer.

Sophie Divry, is a French writer.