List of Famous people born on January 1st

Owen Chow Ka-shing is a Hong Kong localist activist. He was a 2019 District Council election candidate in Tai Wai and ran in the pro-democracy primaries for the 2020 Legislative Council election with the slogan "reject colonisers, national resistance against tyranny" in New Territories East.

José Verdú Nicolás, known as Toché, is a Spanish footballer who plays for Orihuela CF as a striker.

Salvador Capitano is an Argentinean former soccer player. He is currently a coach.

Alain Gresh is a French journalist and former editor of Le Monde Diplomatique.

Ng Kin-wai is a Hong Kong social activist and member of the Yuen Long District Council for Kingswood North. He is currently covenor of the Tin Shui Wai Connection.

Stef Dawson is an Australian actress. She portrayed Annie Cresta in The Hunger Games: Mockingjay – Part 1 and Part 2. She also made a cameo appearance in The Hunger Games: Catching Fire.

Cheryl Benard is an academic scholar, writer, political scientist and novelist. She is the wife of Zalmay Khalilzad, former U.S. Ambassador to the United Nations, Afghanistan and Iraq. She and Khalilzad have two sons, Alexander Benard and Maximilian Benard.

Jon Mikl Thor, better known as Thor, is a bodybuilding champion, actor, songwriter, screenwriter, historian, vocalist and musician.

Kai Althoff is a German visual artist and musician.

Peter or Pyotr Parfenovich Vlasov, better known under his pen name Vladimirov, was a Soviet diplomat and journalist. He is best known for The Vladimirov Diaries, in which he recounted the events in Yan'an during the Second World War, particularly information on Mao Zedong.