List of Famous people born on January 1st

Eden Sonja Jane Riegel is an American actress, voice artist and dialogue director. She portrayed Bianca Montgomery in the daytime drama All My Children, and propelled the character into a gay icon, as well as a popular figure within the medium. Nominated previously on multiple occasions, she received a Daytime Emmy Award for the role in 2005.

Zaki Anwar Nusseibeh is a Minister of State in the UAE Government.

Marwan Hamed is a young Egyptian film director. He is the son of author Wahid Hamed and journalist Zeinab Sweidan. His debut was a short film entitled Li Li followed by a major feature film entitled The Yacoubian Building based on a novel by Alaa Al Aswany and starring Adel Emam.

Takao Makino is a Japanese politician of the Liberal Democratic Party, a member of the House of Councillors in the Diet. A graduate of Waseda University and former member of the assembly of Shizuoka Prefecture, he was elected to the House of Councillors for the first time in 2007.

Amjad Adaileh is a Jordanian politician specialising in news media and communications. Born in 1962 in Kerak, south of Jordan, where he finished High School.

Marcus Urban is a former German football player. He played with the East German national youth football team and in the second division club Rot-Weiß Erfurt in the 1980s and early 1990s. Several years afterwards he came out as a gay man. He has spoken publicly about the difficulties that gay footballers experience, and he is now a spokesperson and campaigner on diversity issues in sport and the workplace.

Benjamin Dutreux is a French sailor born on 5 April 1990 in Villeneuve-d'Ascq. He is competing in the 2020–2021 Vendée Globe finishing 9th in a time of 81d 19h 45m 20s.

Iván Balliu Campeny is an Albanian professional footballer who plays as a right back for UD Almería.

Franck Rivoire, better known by his stage name Danger, is a French electronic musician.

Yoshiaki Yoshimi is a professor of Japanese modern history at Chuo University in Tokyo, Japan. He is a founding member of the Center for Research and Documentation on Japan's War Responsibility.