List of Famous people born on January 1st

Sayyid Mahmoud al-Hasani al-Sarkhi is an Iraqi Marja'.

Robert Zollitsch is a composer and producer of new Chinese music. He is known as Lao Luo (simplified Chinese: 老锣; traditional Chinese: 老鑼; pinyin: Lǎo Luó, literally "Old Ro/Gong" in China, and established himself as an expert of traditional Asian music and a very important composer of contemporary Chinese art music.

Gülser Yıldırım is a Kurdish politician of the Peoples' Democratic Party (HDP).

Safaa Rashid Mahmood Al-Jumaili is an Iraqi weightlifter competing in the 85 kg category. He competed at the 2012 Summer Olympics.

Osman Güneş, is a Turkish bureaucrat. In accordance with Article 114 of the Constitution of the Republic of Turkey, he has served as neutral Minister of Interior till the 2007 general elections.

Rebecca Lee Lok Sze, MH is an explorer from Hong Kong. She is the first Hong Kong person and the first woman to have visited the North Pole, the South Pole, and Mount Everest. She has visited the Yarlung Tsangpo Canyon and the Taklamakan.

Dzongsar Jamyang Khyentse Rinpoche, also known as Khyentse Norbu, is a Tibetan/Bhutanese lama, filmmaker, and writer. His four major films are The Cup (1999), Travellers and Magicians (2003), Vara: A Blessing (2013), and Hema Hema: Sing Me a Song While I Wait (2017). He is the author of What Makes You Not a Buddhist (2007) and many other non-fiction works about Tibetan Buddhism.

Latifa Akherbach is a Moroccan politician and journalist. Between 2007 and 2012, she was Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs in the cabinet of Abbas El Fassi.

Mehmet Tarhan is a Turkish conscientious objector who was imprisoned for refusing military service. Tarhan had been sentenced to four years in a military prison for disobedience after refusing to wear a military uniform, a sentence that is evidently the longest ever given for such an offense in Turkey. He was released in March 2006 after spending several months in prison. As of 2014, he is a member of the party assembly of the Peoples' Democratic Party and a member of the executive committee of its consultative body Peoples' Democratic Congress.

Margaret Leung Ko May-yee, SBS is deputy chairman and managing director of Chong Hing Bank Limited. She was vice-chairman and chief executive officer of Hang Seng Bank Limited. She was the Group general manager and Global Co-head of Commercial banking of HSBC.