List of Famous people born on January 1st

Bushra Bibi Khan is the third spouse of the Prime Minister of Pakistan Imran Khan. She and Khan married six months before he assumed office as Prime Minister.

Roshni Nadar Malhotra is an Indian businesswoman, the chairperson of HCL Technologies and the first woman to lead a listed IT company in India. She is the only child of HCL's founder, Shiv Nadar. In 2019, she is ranked 54th on the Forbes World's 100 Most Powerful Women list.According to IIFL Wealth Hurun India Rich List (2019), Nadar is the richest woman in India. In 2020, she is ranked 55th on the Forbes World's 100 Most Powerful Women.

Jaren Lewison is an American actor, best known for portraying Ben Gross in the television series Never Have I Ever.

Andrew Jeremy Wakefield is a British former physician and academic who was struck off the medical register due to his involvement in the Lancet MMR autism fraud, a 1998 study that falsely claimed a link between the measles, mumps, and rubella (MMR) vaccine and autism. He has subsequently become known for anti-vaccination activism. Publicity around the 1998 study caused a sharp decline in vaccination uptake, leading to a number of outbreaks of measles around the world. He was a surgeon on the liver transplant programme at the Royal Free Hospital in London and became senior lecturer and honorary consultant in experimental gastroenterology at the Royal Free and University College School of Medicine. He resigned from his positions there in 2001, "by mutual agreement", then moved to the United States. In 2004, Wakefield began working at the Thoughtful House research center in Austin, Texas, serving as Executive Director there until February 2010, when he resigned in the wake of findings against him by the British General Medical Council.

Mel Metcalfe is an American sound engineer. He has been nominated for an Academy Award in the Best Sound category three times: in 1987, for Star Trek IV: The Voyage Home; in 1992, for Beauty and the Beast; and in 1993, for Aladdin.

Henry de Lesquen is a French politician. A retired official and former radio host, De Lesquen has been the president of the Carrefour de l'Horloge, a national liberal think tank, since 1985. A blogger and YouTuber since the 2010s, he has participated in popularising the concept of "remigration" in France, as well as spreading racialist concepts built on anthropologist Carleton S. Coon's theories.

Annie Cohen-Solal, is a French historian and writer. For ever, she has been tracking down interactions between art, literature and society with an intercultural twist. After Sartre : A Life (1987) became an international success, she became French cultural counselor in the US, where she held her position from 1989 to 1992. At the crossroads of disciplinary fields, she focuses on the agents responsible for modern symbolic circulations.

Ayşe Buğra is a Turkish social scientist, currently professor of Political Economy at Atatürk Institute for Modern Turkish History and the co-founder of the Social Policy Forum of Boğaziçi University in İstanbul. She is a recipient of the TWAS Prize for Social Sciences which she received in 2014.

Daniel Sachs Goldman is an American attorney and politician who is the Democratic nominee for the U.S. House of Representatives from New York's 10th congressional district. He previously served as lead majority counsel in the first impeachment inquiry against Donald Trump and lead counsel to House Managers in Trump's subsequent impeachment trial. Should he take office, Goldman will be among the wealthiest members of Congress, with an estimated personal net worth of up to $253 million according to financial disclosure forms.

Miguel Ángel Caro Quintero is a Mexican convicted drug lord and former leader of the Caborca Cartel, a defunct criminal group based in Sonora.