List of Famous people born on January 1st

Li Aizhen is a Chinese scientist at Shanghai Institute of Microsystem and Information Technology, affiliated to Chinese Academy of Sciences (CAS). An expert in semiconductor material, she was elected a foreign associate of the United States National Academy of Science in 2007.

Along the Roaring River: My Wild Ride from Mao to the Met (2008) is an autobiography by Hao Jiang Tian, a Chinese-American opera singer for the Metropolitan Opera. The book was published in May 2008 by John Wiley & Sons.

Ibrahim Ishaq, also referred to as Ibrāhīm Isḥāq Ibrāhīm, was a Sudanese novelist, short story writer and academic researcher. Most of his narrative works are set in his native Darfur region of western Sudan. From 1969 on, he published six novels and three collections of short stories, as well as academic studies about the history and literature of Africa. Through his fiction and language, he introduced life and culture of Darfur to readers in other parts of the country.

Bian Zhongyun was a deputy principal at the Experimental High School Attached to Beijing Normal University, in Beijing, China. She was attracted to the Chinese Communisty Party during the Sino-Japanese War and joined the party in 1941, and before working for the high school in Beijing, she worked at an editor for the People's Daily then located in rural Hebei. She became the first victim of the Cultural Revolution in 1966 during Beijing's "Red August", when she was beaten to death with wooden sticks by her students, who were led by Song Binbin. Prior to her death, Bian had been the party leader at the school, but was denounced as a "counter-revolutionary revisionist" by Red Guards.

Hani Mitwasi is a Jordanian singer-musician who is famous for singing in the ‘Spanish-Levant' music genre. After several years of following his passion of the Spanish and Flamenco music, He got his BA in music science at the 'Jordan Academy of Music in 2005, in addition to his 5 years of studying the flamenco guitar.

Raymond Lakah,, is a French-Egyptian magnate, and former owner of the French newspaper France Soir.

Declan Hill is a journalist, academic and consultant. He is one of the world’s foremost experts on match-fixing and corruption in international sports. In 2008, Hill, as a Chevening Scholar, obtained his doctorate in Sociology at the University of Oxford. Currently, he is a senior research fellow in anti-corruption in sports at the University of Würzburg and a professor at the University of New Haven where he has opened the Centre for Sports Integrity in the Investigations Program.

Ayatollah Sayyid Ali al-Husayni al-Milani is an Iraqi-Iranian Shia scholar.