List of Famous people born on January 1st

Lu Zhengyao (陸正耀) aka Charles Lu is a Chinese businessman, angel investor, and the non-executive chairman of Luckin Coffee, a coffee shop chain in China. Lu earned a degree in industrial electric automation from the University of Science and Technology Beijing in 1991, and an EMBA degree from Peking University in 2010.

Ala Abdessaheb al-Alwan was Minister of Education in the cabinet appointed by the Interim Iraq Governing Council in September 2003, and Minister of Health in the Iraqi Interim Government.

Jane Clark is an American author of two series of suspense novels. Her first twelve books are media thrillers influenced by her three decades of experience in broadcast journalism. She plots murder mysteries investigated and solved by the characters who work at KEY News, the fictional television news world she has created. Her next series is The Wedding Cake Mysteries, featuring an actress-turned wedding cake designer who gets involved in murder cases which threaten to prevent ceremonies.

Arlene Tur is a Cuban American actress, television presenter and model. She is best known for her roles as Bebe Arcel in the 2008 television drama series Crash, Armenia in the 2010 film Eat Pray Love and as Vera Juarez in Torchwood: Miracle Day

Diarmaid Murtagh is an Irish actor. He portrayed Leif in the 2013 historical drama television series Vikings, Dimitri in Dracula Untold (2014) and Captain Harpen in The Monuments Men (2014).

Paul Roger Amos is a Welsh actor and Web series producer.

Janet Kidder is a Canadian actress known for her role of Osyraa in Star Trek: Discovery.

Steven Robertson is a Scottish actor who stars as Detective Sandy Wilson in the BBC One adaptation of Ann Cleeves's Shetland, filmed near where Robertson was born and brought up. He portrayed Michael Connelly, a young man with cerebral palsy, in Inside I'm Dancing, and played Dominic Rook in the popular BBC Three comedy-drama series Being Human. He has had roles in numerous television programs including Luther and The Bletchley Circle.

Nicholas C. Frost, known professionally as Nicholas Farrell, is an English stage, film, and television actor.

Abikusno Tjokrosujoso was one of the Founding Fathers of Indonesian Independence and a signatory to the constitution. During the Japanese occupation of the Dutch East Indies, Tjokrosoejoso was a key figure in Masjumi, and was a member of the Central Advisory Council.. He later served on the "Committee of Nine” that drafted the preamble to Indonesia's 1945 constitution. After independence, he served as the Minister of Transportation in Sukarno's first Presidential Cabinet, and also became an advisor to the Bureau of Public Works.[1]