List of Famous people born on January 1st

Hocheng Hong is a Taiwanese academic. He served as the Deputy Minister of the National Science Council of the Executive Yuan from 2012 to 2014 and is the current president of National Tsing Hua University. He is the younger brother of Hochen Tan.

Haider Ahmed Dafalla was the Chief Justice of Sudan and president of the Supreme Court of Sudan, starting in 2014. He was the highest-ranking and presiding judge in the Supreme Court, and also head of administrative functions. Dafalla was nominated and recommended by the national commission for judicial services to chief justice post, as a Chief Justice is responsible for allocation of cases which deal with an important law matters. He was the 15th Chief Justice of the Republic of Sudan since January 1956. In April 2014, the president of the Republic of Sudan appointed Haider Ahmed Dafalla by Presidential decree No. 23/2014 as Chief justice. He took office on 23 April 2014.

Eyüp Aşık is a former Turkish politician. He represented Trabzon in the Grand National Assembly of Turkey for the Motherland Party (ANAP) from 1983 to 2001. In the mid-1990s he was a minister of state responsible for Tekel.

Sami Hilmy al-Hinnawi was a Syrian politician and military officer.

Abdul Wahid Mohamed al Nur is the leader of the rebel Sudan Liberation Movement faction.