List of Famous people born on January 1st

Kazumi Kurigami is a commercial and fine art Japanese photographer.

Eduardo René Chibás Ribas was a Cuban politician who used radio to broadcast his political views to the public. He primarily denounced corruption and gangsterism rampant during the governments of Ramón Grau and Carlos Prío which preceded the Batista era. He believed corruption was the most important problem Cuba faced.

Ramy Essam is an Egyptian musician. He is best known for his appearances in Tahrir Square in Cairo during the Egyptian Revolution of 2011. Ramy is one of the few singers in Middle East to sing hard rock.

Nouria Yamina Zerhouni is an Algerian politician who served as governor of Boumerdès Province between 2015 and 2018.

Albertina Carri is an Argentine screenwriter, movie producer, movie director and audiovisual artist.

Ahmad Mansour Al-Ahmad Al-Sabah was a Kuwaiti politician. He served as Deputy Prime Minister and Minister of Defence from 2019 to 2020. He is the second line of heir apparent.

Ernst Rifgatovich Muldashev - Soviet and Russian surgeon ophthalmologist, surgeon of the highest degree, inventor, general director of the Federal State Budgetary Institution "All-Russian Center for Ophthalmic and Plastic Surgery" Ministry of Health of the Russian Federation in the city of Ufa. In addition, he became famous as the author of a number of esoteric books, newspaper publications and films on mystical themes related to expeditions to Crete, Egypt and Tibet studying ancient civilizations.

Makate Asai is a Japanese writer of historical fiction. She has won the Naoki Prize and the Oda Sakunosuke Prize, and two of her novels have been adapted for television by NHK.

Sir Paul Collier, is a British development economist who serves as the Professor of Economics and Public Policy in the Blavatnik School of Government and the director of the International Growth Centre. He currently is a Professeur invité at Sciences Po and a Professorial Fellow of St Antony's College, Oxford. He has served as a senior advisor to the Blair Commission for Africa and was the Director of the Development Research Group at the World Bank between 1998 and 2003.

Kenneth Chen Wei-on, is the current Secretary General of the Secretariat of the Legislative Council of Hong Kong. He was appointed as the Undersecretary for education in 2008.