List of Famous people born on January 1st

Khaled Sultan Bin Essa is a member of the Kuwaiti National Assembly, representing the second district. Bin Essa earned an MA in business administration and was Chairman of the Kuwait Graduates Society before being elected to the National Assembly in 2008.

Ziad Abu Amr is a Palestinian politician, author, and member of the Palestinian Legislative Council. He currently serves as the first Deputy Prime Minister and is a member (independent) of the PLO Executive Committee. From 18 March 2007 to 17 June 2007, he was Foreign Minister of the Palestinian National Authority. On 6 June 2013, Ziad Abu-Amr was appointed as Deputy Prime Minister of the Palestinian Authority by President Mahmoud Abbas.

M. Şükrü Hanioğlu is a Turkish professor of late Ottoman history in the Department of Near Eastern Studies at Princeton University. Between 2005 and 2014, he was the department chair.

Mohammad Sidik Saimima, is an Indonesian professional footballer who plays as a midfielder for Liga 1 club Bali United.

Jeffi Medina is a prominent Turkish Jewish businessman in the advertisement sector of Turkey.

Ge Fei is the pen-name for Liu Yong (刘勇), a Chinese novelist who is considered one of the preeminent experimental writers during the late 1980s and early 1990s.

Hsieh Ying-chun is a Taiwanese architect and contractor.

Hafize Şahin is a Turkish female freestyle wrestler competing in the 59 kg division. She is a member of the Trakya Birlik SK in Edirne, where she is coached by Habil Kara. She continues her study in physical education and sports at Trakya University, which she began at Aksaray University.

Jacqueline Bryony Lucy ‘Jackie’ Pullinger, MBE is a British Protestant Christian charismatic missionary to Hong Kong and founder of the St Stephen's Society. She has been ministering in Hong Kong since 1966. The early years of her Hong Kong ministry are chronicled in the book Chasing the Dragon (1980).

Mohammed Fahad Al-Harthi, is a Saudi writer, journalist and media expert, with more than 20 years of experience in the field of traditional and new media.