List of Famous people born on January 1st

Robert B. Rowling is an American billionaire businessman, and the Founder of TRT Holdings, the holding company of Omni Hotels and Gold's Gym.

Robert W. Ghrist is an American mathematician, known for his work on topological methods in applied mathematics.

Xie Feng is currently Vice Foreign Minister in the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of the People's Republic of China, specifically for managing China's relationship with the United States of America. Previously he was the commissioner of the Office of the Commissioner of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of the People's Republic of China in the Hong Kong Special Administrative Region. Xie is a graduate of the China Foreign Affairs University. He previously served as the Director-General of the Department of North American and Oceanian Affairs, for the Ministry of Foreign Affairs (MFA), as well as the Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary of the People's Republic of China to Indonesia.