List of Famous people born on January 1st

Mohamed Anwar Esmat Sadat is a former member of the Egyptian Parliament during the rule of Hosni Mubarak. He is related to two prominent Egyptian politicians, he is the nephew of Anwar Sadat and brother of Talaat Sadat. He won a seat during the parliamentary elections after the January 25 revolution for the second constituency (Fardi) Monufia Governorate and is the founder of the Reform and Development Misruna Party along with Raymond Lakah.

Yang Weize is a former Chinese politician. He was the Communist Party Secretary of Nanjing, capital of Jiangsu Province, from 2011 to 2015. Prior to that, he served as the party chief in the neighbouring city of Wuxi for seven years, and before that the Mayor of Suzhou. In 2015, Yang was put under investigation for corruption by the Central Commission for Discipline Inspection of the Communist Party of China. He was tried and convicted on corruption charges and sentenced to twelve years and six months in prison in December 2016.

Grand Ayatollah Sheikh Basheer Hussain Najafi is a Pakistani Twelver Shia Marja' and one of the Four Grand Ayatollahs of Najaf, Iraq. He was born in Jalandhar, a city in then British India.

Shadia Rifa'i Habbal is a Syrian-American astronomer and physicist specialized in Space physics. A professor of Solar physics, her research is centered on Solar wind and Solar eclipse.

Ahmed Omar Maiteeg is a Libyan businessman and politician, originally from Misrata, who was elected Prime Minister of Libya in May 2014. His election as prime minister took place under disputed circumstances. The Justice Ministry decided on 29 May that Maiteeg was not the Prime Minister due to voting procedural issue occurred when the First Deputy of GNC left the session without valid reason. The Libyan Supreme Court was expected to issue a verdict on 5 June 2014 regarding the election of Maiteeq, although it indicated on that day that it believed that the appointment of Maiteeq was invalid, the court stated that appeals should be heard and delayed a final ruling until 9 June. The court ruled on 9 June that Maiteeq appointment was invalid; Abdullah al-Thani is expected to stay on as prime minister. Maiteeq submitted his resignation voluntarily in same day.

Robin Chan Yau-hing, GBM, GBS, JP also known as Chen Youqing, or Rabin Sophonpanich is the eldest son of Chin Sophonpanich, and serves as the chairman of the Asia Financial Group. He has two sons, Stephen Tan & Bernard Chan, who are executive director and president of the Asia Financial Group and its main subsidiary, Asia Insurance respectively.

Min H. Kao is a Taiwanese-American electrical engineer, billionaire businessman, and philanthropist. He is the co-founder of Garmin, with Gary Burrell. As of February 2020, his personal wealth was estimated at $4.1 billion.