List of Famous people born on January 1st

Zhu Xiaodan is the Chinese politician who served as Governor of Guangdong from 2011 to 2016. A lifelong Communist functionary, Zhu was appointed Vice Governor of Guangdong in February 2010 and became acting Governor in November 2011 following the resignation of Huang Huahua. Zhu has spent his entire political career in Guangdong province. He was elected Governor in January 2012.

Johnson Lam Man-hon is a Permanent Judge of the Hong Kong Court of Final Appeal.

Salim Barakat is a Kurdish-Syrian novelist and poet. He was brought up in Qamishli in northern Syria and spent most of his youth there. In 1970 he moved to Damascus to study Arabic literature but after one year he moved to Beirut where he stayed until 1982. While in Beirut he published five volumes of poetry, a diary and two volumes of autobiography. He moved to Cyprus and worked as a managing editor of the prestigious Palestinian journal Al-Karmel, whose editor was Mahmoud Darwish. In 1999 he moved to Sweden, where he still resides.

Ying Liang is a Chinese independent film director and screenwriter.

Nasser Mansi, is an Egyptian footballer who plays for Egyptian Premier League side Tala'ea El Gaish SC on loan from Pyramids as a forward.