List of Famous people born on January 1st

Laurent Bateau is a French actor. He has appeared in more than eighty films since 1992.

The so-called Cambodian jungle girl is a Vietnamese woman who emerged from the jungle in Ratanakiri province, Cambodia on January 13, 2007. A family in a nearby village claimed that the woman was their daughter Rochom P'ngieng who had disappeared 18 or 19 years previously; the story was covered in most media as one of a feral child who lived in the jungle for most of her life. However, some reporters and non-governmental organizations (NGOs) questioned this explanation and suggested that she instead might be an unrelated woman who had been held in captivity. The woman stayed with the family until 2016, when a Vietnamese man claimed that the woman was his daughter who had disappeared in 2006 at age 23, following a mental breakdown. He was able to provide documentation about the woman's birth and disappearance, and shortly after brought her back to his village in Vietnam. He received the support of her adoptive family as well as the approval of immigration officials.

Sylvie Verheyde is a French film director, actress and screenwriter.

Rie Matsumoto is a Japanese anime director and storyboard artist.

Wang Enge is a Chinese physicist and academician of the Chinese Academy of Sciences. He succeeded Zhou Qifeng to the office of the President of Peking University on 22 March 2013. From 15 February 2015, he becomes the Vice President of Chinese Academy of Sciences.

Mustafa Necdet Üruğ is a former Turkish general and the nephew of Faruk Gürler. He was Commander of the First Army of Turkey during the 1980 military coup. After the coup he was Commander of the Turkish Army (1983), and Chief of the General Staff of Turkey, as well as Secretary-General of the Presidential Council.

Kōta Ishibashi is a professional Japanese baseball player. He plays catcher for the Chunichi Dragons.

Liliana Herrero is an Argentine musician born in 1948 in Villaguay, Entre Ríos. In 1966 she moved to Rosario, Santa Fe, in order to study Philosophy, and has since become an adoptive citizen.

Shen Jong-chin is a Taiwanese politician.

Selwa Al-Hazzaa is a Saudi ophthalmologist and head of the ophthalmology department at King Faisal Specialist Hospital. She served as the personal ophthalmologist for the late King Fahd bin Abdulaziz Al Saud. She is one of the first Saudi women to achieve international success academically and professionally. On January 11, 2013, per a Royal Decree from King Abdullah, Al-Hazzaa became one of the first ever female members of the Saudi Arabia Shoura Council.