List of Famous people born on January 1st

Mehmet Şimşek is a Turkish politician and economist of Kurdish origin who served as a Deputy Prime Minister of Turkey from 24 November 2015 until the office's abolition on 9 July 2018. He previously served as the Minister of Finance from 2009 to 2015, serving in the cabinets of Prime Ministers of Recep Tayyip Erdoğan and Ahmet Davutoğlu. As a member of the Justice and Development Party, he was elected as a Member of Parliament for Gaziantep in the 2007 general election and for Batman in the 2011 general election.

Jean Thompson Kasem is an American actress. She is the widow of radio personality and actor Casey Kasem.

Terrycina Andrea "Terri" Sewell is an American lawyer and politician. She is a member of the Democratic Party. She has served as the U.S. Representative since 2011 for Alabama's 7th congressional district, which includes most of the Black Belt, as well as most of the predominantly black portions of Birmingham, Tuscaloosa, and Montgomery.

William Craig Campbell is an American politician, who served as the 57th Mayor of Atlanta, Georgia from January 1994–January 2002. He was the third African-American mayor in the city's history. Accused of corruption during his time in office, he was convicted for tax evasion in 2006 and spent 16 months in Federal prison.

Zhang Jinghua is a former Chinese politician who served as Chinese Communist Party Committee Secretary of Nanjing from 2017 to 2021. Zhang also has a seat on the Jiangsu provincial Standing Committee. On November 15, 2017, Zhang met with former Israeli Ambassador to China, Matan Vilnai. On August 30, 2017, Zhang led a party and government delegation to investigate the industrial development and technological innovation of Wuxi. In December 2016, while serving as Vice-Governor of Jiangsu, Zhang visited the Nanjing University of Chinese Medicine.

Jérémie Serrandour is a French rapper from Rennes, who has also been known since 2016 by his stage persona Lorenzo. Previously, he was a member of hip hop collective Columbine, under the moniker Larry Garcia. He released his first mixtape as Lorenzo, Empereur du sale, on 31 March 2016. followed by two albums: Rien à branler (2018) and Sex in the City (2019) both topping the French Albums Chart.

Gultekin Uysal is a Turkish politician and businessman who has been the chairman of the Democratic Party (DP), since May 2012. In 2018 election he elected on the İYİ Party list but then he rejoined his party.

Abdulaziz bin Salman bin Abdulaziz Al Saud is a member of the House of Saud. He was the assistant oil minister of Saudi Arabia between 2005 and 2017. In April 2017, he was made state minister for energy affairs. On 8 September 2019 a royal decree was issued to appoint him as minister of energy, the first royal to hold this portfolio.

Vinod Dham is an engineer, entrepreneur and venture capitalist. He is known as 'Father of the Pentium Chip' for his contribution to the development of Intel's Pentium micro-processor He is a mentor, advisor and sits on the boards of companies, including startups funded through his India-based fund Indo-US Venture Partners, where he is the founding managing director.

Derrick Evans is an American politician, educator, and football coach. He served as a member of the West Virginia House of Delegates for the 19th district from December 1, 2020 to January 9, 2021. He had previously run for the same seat in 2016, placing sixth out of seven in the Democratic primary, and ran in the general election as a Libertarian and lost. In 2020, he was elected as a Republican to represent the two-member House District 19, alongside Democratic candidate Ric Griffith.