List of Famous people born on January 1st

Tsang Tak Sing GBS JP is the former Secretary for Home Affairs of Hong Kong. Formerly an adviser to the Central Policy Unit, he assumed office on 1 July 2007, replacing Patrick Ho. He is the younger brother of Jasper Tsang, who was the legislative councillor and former chairman of the Democratic Alliance for the Betterment of Hong Kong. Tsang is regarded as pro-Beijing with a long history of supporting the Communist Party of China.

Otoni Moura de Paula Júnior is a Brazilian politician and pastor. Hae has spent his political career representing Rio de Janeiro, having served as federal deputy representative since 2019.

Laura Howard is an English actress. She is probably best known for her role as Cully Barnaby in the long-running British crime-mystery Police procedural Midsomer Murders.

Jesús Abad Colorado is a Colombian photojournalist. His work focuses on human rights and armed conflict.

Volker Quaschning is a German engineer and professor of renewable energy systems at the Hochschule für Technik und Wirtschaft Berlin, Germany.

Lawrence Yu Kam-kee MBE, BBS, JP is a prominent Hong Kong businessman.

Ronald Ray Cobb was an American-Australian cartoonist, artist, and film designer who worked on numerous major films including Dark Star (1974), Star Wars (1977), Alien (1979), Raiders of the Lost Ark (1981), Conan the Barbarian (1982), Back to the Future (1985), The Abyss (1989), and Total Recall (1990). He had one credit as director, for the 1992 film Garbo.

Thomas Lau Luen-hung is a Hong Kong business magnate of Teochew descent. He is the chairman and CEO of Lifestyle International Holdings which operates Hong Kong's largest department, Sogo Hong Kong. He is a member of the Twelfth Chinese People's Political Consultative Conference Shanghai Committee and sits on the board of directors for Shanghai Jiao Tong University.

Chiang Chieh-an is a Taiwanese politician who served in the Legislative Yuan from 2018 to 2020.

Toshio Kagami is the chairman and chief executive officer (CEO) of The Oriental Land Company, and the representative director, chairman and CEO of the Tokyo Disney Resort in Japan.