List of Famous people born on January 1st

Hitoma Iruma is a Japanese writer and light novel author. He was born in Gifu Prefecture.

Tsutomu Hanabusa is a Japanese film director.

Gang Chen is a Chinese-born American mechanical engineer and nanotechnologist. At MIT, he is the Carl Richard Soderberg Professor of Power Engineering and he was head of the Department of Mechanical Engineering from July 23, 2013 to June 30, 2018. He directed the Solid-State Solar-Thermal Energy Conversion Center, an Energy Frontier Research Center formerly funded by the US Department of Energy. Chen is a member of the US National Academy of Engineering. In January 2021, Chen was charged by the United States Department of Justice with failing to disclose alleged connections to several educational programs in China in filing a United States Department of Energy grant application, as well as omissions in his Internal Revenue Service tax filings.

Fiona Yuen Choi Wan is a German-born Hong Kong model and actress.

Didier Hassoux is a French investigative journalist and political writer. He is the co-author of six books about French politics, and he writes for Le Canard enchaîné.

Philipp Stölzl is a German film director, opera director and screenwriter. He began to direct music videos in the mid 1990s and directed his first feature film in 2002.

Fuat Ergin, is a Turkish rapper and songwriter.

Renate von Natzmer was a German noblewoman who worked for the army during the Weimar Republic and Third Reich. She also worked for Polish intelligence. In the early 1930s, she met Polish agent major Jerzy Sosnowski and she became, like her friend Benita von Falkenhayn, his lover. They were arrested for spying and treason. Von Falkenhayn and von Natzmer were found guilty and sentenced to death.

Paco Plaza is a Spanish film director best known for writing and directing REC and REC 2 with Jaume Balagueró. He then went on to direct the REC parallel sequel REC 3: Genesis by himself while Jaume Balagueró directed the follow-up, REC 4: Apocalypse.

Issa bin Zayed Al Nahyan is the son of former United Arab Emirates President Zayed bin Sultan Al Nahyan; the half brother of the present ruler of Abu Dhabi, the President Khalifa bin Zayed Al Nahyan; and the half brother of Crown Prince Mohammed bin Zayed Al Nahyan.