List of Famous people born on January 1st

Ruslan Aleksandrovich Kambolov is a Russian footballer who plays for FC Krasnodar. He plays at centre-back or defensive midfielder positions.

Christoph Lütge is a German philosopher and economist notable for his work on business ethics, AI ethics, experimental ethics and political philosophy. He is full professor of business ethics at the Technical University of Munich and director of its Institute for Ethics in Artificial Intelligence.

Mohammad al-Tobaishi was the former head of protocol at the royal court of the House of Saud.

Dana Michelle Gourrier is an American actress, known for her roles as Cora in the film Django Unchained (2012), and as Minnie Mink in The Hateful Eight (2015), both directed by Quentin Tarantino.

Jacques Palminger is a German actor, musician, and member of the comedy ensemble Studio Braun.

Khadija Benguenna is an Algerian journalist working in the Al Jazeera channel in Qatar. Born in Algeria in 1965, Khadija Benguenna graduated from the radio and television section of the Media Institute at the University of Algiers.

Abigail Hawk is an American actress known for playing Samantha Bonner in the 1995 TV series Reality Check, Detective Abigail Baker in Blue Bloods, Riley Thomas in the 2016 holiday TV movie, A Christmas in Vermont, and Ellie in Domenica Cameron-Scorsese's 2017 directorial debut, Almost Paris. For her performance in Almost Paris, Hawk won the "Best Actress" award at the 2017 Golden Door Film Festival.

Mehmet Mehdi Eker is a Turkish politician who served as the Minister of Food, Agriculture and Livestock of Turkey from 2005 until 2015. He was elected a Member of Parliament for the electoral district of Diyarbakır for Democratic People's Party in 2002. He was re-elected in 2007 and 2011 for the Justice and Development Party (AKP). He was again elected as an MP in 2018.

Aurélien N'Zuzi Zola, better known by the mononym Zola, is a French rapper of Congolese descent. Cicatrices, his debut album was released in 2019. His song "California Girls" was featured in the soundtrack of the film Taxi 5.

David Schraven is a German journalist. Since 2010 till 2014, he used to be head of investigations at Funke Mediengruppe, one of the largest European media holdings for regional newspapers including Westdeutsche Allgemeine Zeitung. From 2007 till Sept 2014, he was treasurer of German association of investigative journalists Netzwerk Recherche. From June 2014, he is Founder and Publisher of Correctiv - the first nonprofit investigative newsroom in the German-speaking world. Schraven is one of Germany's best known investigative journalists.