List of Famous people born on January 1st

Saud bin Abdulaziz Al Rashid was the tenth Emir of Jabal Shammar between 1908 and 1920.

Fathi Ali Abdul Salam Bashagha, known simply as "Fathi Bashagha", or "Fathi Ali Pasha" on his website, was born on 20 August 1962 in Misrata and is the current Minister of Interior of the Government of National Accord (GNA) appointed by Fayez al-Sarraj on 7 October 2018.

Kasha Jacqueline Nabagesera is a Ugandan LGBT rights activist and the founder and executive director of the LGBT rights organization Freedom & Roam Uganda (FARUG). She received the Martin Ennals Award for Human Rights Defenders in 2011 and the Right Livelihood Award in 2015.

Alberto Dualib is a Brazilian businessman of Lebanese descent. Alberto Dualib was Sport Club Corinthians Paulista's chairman between 1993–2007. He worked with: Nesi Curi, Clodomil Antonio Orsi, Wilson Bento, Aurélio de Paula, Osmar Stábile, Antonio Jorge, Rachid Junior, Emerson Piovezan, Farid Zablith Filho, Jorge Agle Kalil, Francisco Teocharis Papaiordanou Jr., Ílton José da Costa, Paulino Tritapepe Neto. As the club chairman, he made a contract with Media Sports Investments, controlled by Kia Joorabchian, and with the Russian oligarch Boris Berezovsky as one of its investors. Renato Duprat is his right arm. With MSI's aid, Dualib contracted many stars for Corinthians, like: Carlos Tevez, Nilmar Honorato da Silva, Javier Mascherano, Marcelo Mattos, Roger, Gustavo Nery, Carlos Alberto and others.

Kim Jae-ryong is a North Korean politician. He is a senior official of the Workers' Party of Korea and a deputy to the Supreme People's Assembly, and served as Premier of North Korea from April 2019 until August 2020

Nurettin Sözen is a Turkish doctor, politician and the former mayor of Istanbul, Turkey.

Alice Bota is a German journalist, presently working for the weekly Die Zeit, and a book author. Born in Poland, she studied in both Germany and Poland and focuses on topics of Eastern Europe.

Abdallah S. Jum'ah is a prominent Saudi business executive and the former President and CEO of Saudi Aramco, a position he held from January 1995 to December 2008.

Serdar Hüseyin Yıldırım Turkish politician and engineer. Since 6 August 2019 first president of Turkish Space Agency.

Ottmar Georg Edenhofer is one of the world's leading experts on climate change policy, environmental and energy policy, and energy economics. His work has been heavily cited. Edenhofer currently holds the professorship of the Economics of Climate Change at the Technical University of Berlin. He is designated director and chief economist of the Potsdam Institute for Climate Impact Research (PIK) as well as director of the Mercator Research Institute on Global Commons and Climate Change (MCC). From 2008 to 2015 he served as one of the co-chairs of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) Working Group III "Mitigation of Climate Change".