List of Famous people born on January 1st

Amr Al-Dabbagh is a Saudi businessman, philanthropist, former government minister, and author. He is the Chairman and CEO of the Jeddah-based Al-Dabbagh Group. Al-Dabbagh is the founder of the Stars Foundation, a non-profit devoted to helping disadvantaged children, and Philanthropy University, a Massive open online course (MOOC) for Global South civil society organizations, providing free non-credit courses based in Oakland, California.

Kim Byung-chul is a South Korean actor. He is best known for playing Cha Min-hyuk in the television series Sky Castle. He prominently rose to fame by playing in hit television dramas like Descendants of the Sun and Guardian: The Lonely and Great God.

Wolf Bachofner is an Austrian stage and film actor.

Li Jiangzhou is a deputy director of the Office for Safeguarding National Security in Hong Kong. He is a former public security officer and has worked in the liaison office since 2016.

Inge Hannemann is a German blogger, whistleblower, Hartz IV critic and politician. On 15 February 2015 she was elected to the Hamburg Parliament for the political party Die Linke.

Bowie Hau Chi-keung is a rural leader and businessman in Hong Kong. He is the current chairman of the Sheung Shui Rural Committee, ex officio executive committee member of the Heung Yee Kuk and ex officio member of the North District Council.

Zhang Lu (1977-) is a Chinese diplomat who interprets for senior Chinese officials. She is known for the high quality of her interpretation as well her poise and beauty, which have made her a celebrity in China.

Michael Steven Anthony Graziano is an American scientist and novelist who is currently a professor of Psychology and Neuroscience at Princeton University. His scientific research focuses on the brain basis of awareness. He has proposed the "attention schema" theory, an explanation of how, and for what adaptive advantage, brains attribute the property of awareness to themselves. His previous work focused on how the cerebral cortex monitors the space around the body and controls movement within that space. Notably he has suggested that the classical map of the body in motor cortex, the homunculus, is not correct and is better described as a map of complex actions that make up the behavioral repertoire. His publications on this topic have had a widespread impact among neuroscientists but have also generated controversy. His novels rely partly on his background in psychology and are known for surrealism or magic realism. Graziano also composes music including symphonies and string quartets. He is an avid practitioner of ventriloquism and uses a puppet orangutan "Kevin" as sidekick.