List of Famous people born on January 1st

Tarek bin Mohammed bin 'Awad bin Laden is the half-brother of Osama bin Laden, and a member of the Saudi Arabia business community. He was once called "the personification of the dichotomy of Saudi Arabia." He started a textile business with Swedish actor Kjell Bergqvist, intending to make use of some of the large state-owned textile mills in Egypt, and then sell the clothing in the West. "It didn't work out. The factories in Egypt produced for the Soviet Union and they were poorly designed," Bergqvist recalled. Tarek bin Laden is currently chairman of Middle East Development LLC, a Dubai-based company.

Catherine Elizabeth Bingham, known as Kate Bingham, is a British venture capital manager.

Kwong Siu-hing, or sometimes Kwok Kwong Siu-hing, is the matriarch of the Kwok family. She controls the conglomerate Sun Hung Kai Properties, the largest property developer in Hong Kong as of 2019. As of 2008, Kwong effectively controls about 41.53% of SHK Properties' shares through a family trust, so she was deemed as the largest shareholder of the company, with a net worth of 12.1 billion dollars as of July 2020.

Éric Jacques Levisalles, stagename Eric Lévi is a French rock musician based in London.