List of Famous people born on January 1st

Daniel Streich is a Swiss military instructor, community council member and a former member of Swiss People's Party. A Protestant who converted to Catholicism and then to Islam, Streich left the Swiss People's Party over the campaign for the national ban on the construction of new minarets.

Daoud Anastas Hanania is a Jordanian heart surgeon of Palestinian origin. Hanania is a former Lieutenant General in the Jordanian Armed Forces and former Senator in the Jordanian Parliament.

Ken Liu is a multiple Hugo Award-winning American author of science fiction and fantasy. His epic fantasy series The Dandelion Dynasty, the first work in the "silkpunk" genre, is published by Simon & Schuster. His short stories have appeared in F&SF, Asimov's, Analog, Lightspeed, Clarkesworld, and multiple "Year's Best" anthologies.

Ha Do-kwon is a South Korean actor. He is mainly known for his roles in Hot Stove League and The Penthouse: War in Life.

Yu Wensheng is a Chinese human rights lawyer based in Beijing. He is known for criticizing the Chinese Communist Party and taking up politically sensitive cases against the government.

David Kang is an Australian barrister. In 1994, he fired two blank shots of a starting pistol at Charles, Prince of Wales in protest at the treatment of several hundred Cambodian asylum seekers held in detention camps in Australia.

Yao Leeh-ter is a Taiwanese engineer and politician. He was appointed political deputy minister of Education in September 2017 and resigned the position in January 2019.

Mohamed al-Atifi is the Defense minister of the Houthi government from 28 November 2016.

Reha Erdem is a Turkish film director and screenwriter.

Étienne Saqr, also known by his kunya "Abu Arz”, is a Lebanese nationalist leader and founder of the Guardians of the Cedars militia and political party. Adams and his militia participated in the Lebanese Lore War facing the Palestinians and the Syrians in the 1970s and 1980s, and remained militantly active until he was expelled from the country with the flight of the South Lebanon Army, of which he was not a member, in May 2000.