List of Famous people born on January 1st

Sheila McCarthy is a Canadian actress and singer. She has worked in film, television, and on stage. McCarthy is one of Canada's most honoured actors, having won two Genie Awards (film), two Gemini Awards (television), an ACTRA Award, and two Dora Awards (theatre), along with multiple nominations.

Kitamura Sayo was the founder of the "dancing religion", Tensho Kotai Jingukyo.

Nizar bin Obaid Madani was the state minister for foreign affairs of the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia.

Richard Dillane is a British actor. He appears in a lead role of the Netflix series Young Wallander, based on the character Kurt Wallander created by novelist Henning Mankell. He played British intelligence agent Peter Nicholls in Ben Affleck's Oscar-winning 2012 political thriller Argo, and Merv Humphreys, husband of Margaret Humphreys in Jim Loach's fact-based movie Oranges and Sunshine.

Jacques Mathou is a French actor, best known for his appearance in Delicatessen.

Caspar Frantz is a German pianist and music educator.

Si Xinliang is a former Chinese politician. From 2010 to 2013, Si served as the Vice Chairman of the Zhejiang Provincial People's Political Consultative Conference, a mostly ceremonial legislative consultation body. Prior to that, Si served as the chief of the Organization Department of the Zhejiang provincial Communist party Committee. He worked for several years under Xi Jinping, who was serving as the party chief of Zhejiang.

Hendrik Bolz, better known by his stage name Testo, is a German rapper who is signed to the Hamburg label Buback. Together with the rapper grim104 he forms the hip-hop duo Zugezogen Maskulin.

Morio Matsui is a Japanese artist who has lived and worked in Corsica, France, since 1998.

Hamdy Fathy Abdelhalim Abdelfattah is an Egyptian professional footballer who plays as a midfielder for Egyptian Premier League club Al Ahly and Egyptian national team.