List of Famous people born on January 1st

Esther Regina is a Spanish actress.

Riad Mousa al-Asaad is a Syrian military leader and politician. Since 2 November 2017, he is the Deputy Prime Minister for Military Affairs of the Syrian Salvation Government. He is a former military commander of the Free Syrian Army. He was a former Colonel in the Syrian Air Force who defected in July 2011.

Jon Halliday is an Irish historian specialising in modern Asia. He was formerly a Senior Visiting Research Fellow at King's College London.

Achintya Holte Nilsen is an Indonesian-Norwegian supermodel, singer and Greenpeace activist, who was crowned Miss Indonesia 2017, She represented Indonesia at the Miss World 2017 pageant and finished as Top 10 finalists and won "Beauty with a Purpose" and "Best Designer Award".

Claude Challe is a French DJ and club owner, the co-creator of the Buddha Bar restaurant/clubs and music compilations.

Grace Huang is a Taiwanese-Australian actress of Cantonese descent, best known for her role as the Gemini Female in the RZA directed martial arts film, The Man with the Iron Fists.

Kathleen Seidel is a researcher and weblog publisher from Peterborough, New Hampshire, best known for investigations and writing on autism. Her inquiries into the work and conduct of Mark Geier and his son David Geier regarding chelation therapy and a hormone-altering drug called Lupron, led to medical board actions in multiple states that suspended Mark Geier from medical practice, and caused David Geier to be arraigned for allegedly practising medicine without a license.

Boris Giltburg is an Israeli classical pianist, born in Russia.

Heiner Koch is a German prelate of the Catholic Church. He has been the Archbishop of Berlin since September 2015. He was an auxiliary bishop in Cologne from 2006 to 2013 and Bishop of Dresden-Meissen from 2013 to 2015.

Nosie Katzmann is a German dance music songwriter and producer.