List of Famous people born on January 1st

Ning Jizhe is a Chinese economist and senior official currently serving as the director of the National Bureau of Statistics of China and Vice Chairman of the National Development and Reform Commission.

Tang Liangzhi is a Chinese politician who has been Mayor of Chongqing since January 2018. He was previously party secretary of Chengdu, the capital of Sichuan Province, and mayor of Wuhan, the capital of Hubei.

Nai-Chang Yeh is a Taiwanese-American physicist specializing in experimental condensed matter physics.

Sami al-Askari is an Iraqi politician and member of the Iraqi National Assembly, elected from the State of Law political coalition During the regime of Saddam Hussein he was active in exile opposition politics, joining the 1992 Executive Council of the Iraqi National Congress as a representative of the Islamic Dawa Party. In 2003, al-Askari joined the Iraqi Reconstruction and Development Council (IRDC) led by Emad Dhia and worked for Coalition Provisional Authority (CPA) Central Baghdad office as Media Spokesman. He was a member of the committee that drafted the Constitution of Iraq. In 2009, al-Askari was involved in the handover of British hostage Peter Moore to the Iraqi government authorities. Moore was later returned to the UK.

Liu Zhigeng is a former Chinese politician. He was the Vice-Governor of Guangdong and the Communist Party Secretary of Dongguan. On February 4, 2016, Liu was placed under investigation by the Communist Party's anti-corruption agency.

Mustafa İnan was a Turkish civil engineering academic.

Atef Tarawneh is a Jordanian politician, he has been the Speaker of Jordan's House of Representatives since 3 November 2013. He has been a member of the House of Representatives since 2003.

Dennis To Yu-hang is a Hong Kong martial artist and actor. He started his career as a wushu practitioner and won several awards at various competitions, including a silver medal at the 2002 Asian Games and a gold medal at the 2005 East Asian Games. He became an actor in 2007 and started by playing minor roles in Ip Man (2008), Bodyguards and Assassins (2009) and Ip Man 2 (2010). He is best known for his role as the Wing Chun grandmaster Ip Man in the 2010 film The Legend Is Born – Ip Man.

Song Binbin, also known as Song Yaowu, was a senior leader in the Chinese Red Guards during the Cultural Revolution. She is known for beating her deputy principal Bian Zhongyun to death with wooden sticks, along with other students.

Chang Tzi-chin is a Taiwanese politician. He currently serves as the Minister of the Environmental Protection Administration of the Executive Yuan.