List of Famous people born on January 1st

Haydar Ergülen is a Turkish poet. Born on 14 October 1956, in Eskişehir, Turkey, he graduated from the Sociology Department at Orta Doğu Teknik Üniversitesi in Ankara.

Amr bin Mohammed Al Saud is a Saudi businessman, columnist, architect and a member of House of Saud.

Jetsunma Tenzin Palmo is a bhikṣuṇī in the Drukpa Lineage of the Kagyu school of Tibetan Buddhism. She is an author, teacher and founder of the Dongyu Gatsal Ling Nunnery in Himachal Pradesh, India. She is best known for being one of the very few Western yoginis trained in the East, having spent twelve years living in a remote cave in the Himalayas, three of those years in strict meditation retreat.

Kutluğ Ataman is a Turkish-American contemporary artist and filmmaker, who produces both photography and video art. He won the Carnegie Prize for his works "Kuba" in 2004. In the same year he was nominated for Turner Prize for his work "twelve". He resides in London.

Wu Aiying is a former Chinese politician who served as the Minister of Justice of China from 2005 to 2017, in the cabinets of Premiers Wen Jiabao and Li Keqiang. Previously she held numerous political positions in her native Shandong province. She was investigated for corruption and expelled from the Communist Party in 2017.

Isaac Burton Tigrett is an American businessman, best known as the co-founder of Hard Rock Café and House of Blues.

Yousef bin Ahmad Al-Othaimeen is a Saudi Arabian politician who is the secretary-general of the Organisation of Islamic Cooperation (OIC), since November 2016, when Iyad bin Amin Madani stepped down for health reasons.