List of Famous people born on January 1st

Roekiah, often credited as Miss Roekiah, was an Indonesian kroncong singer and film actress. The daughter of two stage performers, she began her career at the age of seven; by 1932 she had become well known in Batavia, Dutch East Indies, as a singer and stage actress. Around this time she met Kartolo, whom she married in 1934. The two acted in the 1937 hit film Terang Boelan, in which Roekiah and Rd Mochtar played young lovers.

Monica Evans is an English actress known for her portrayal of Cecily Pigeon in Neil Simon's The Odd Couple. She was in the original Broadway cast for its entire run, then appeared in the film version in 1968, and finally appeared in some episodes of the first season of the television series based on the play, all in the same role, alongside Carole Shelley as her sister Gwendolyn Pigeon. She also provided voices for the Disney animated films The Aristocats, as Abigail Gabble and Robin Hood (1973) as Maid Marian.

Subodh Kumar Jaiswal is the Director of Central Bureau of Investigation.He is an Indian police officer in the 1985 batch Indian Police Service (IPS) officer and the former Director General of Police, Maharashtra, succeeding Dattatray Padsalgikar on 28 February 2019. .He was previously the police commissioner of Mumbai, the largest city in India and the seventh most populous city in the world. Jaiswal was with the Research and Analysis Wing (RA&W), India's external intelligence agency for nine years, during which he served as the additional secretary of RA&W for three years.He was the head of the Central Industrial Security Force.

John Schneeberger is a North Rhodesian-born former physician who drugged and raped one of his female patients and his stepdaughter while a physician in Canada. For years, he evaded arrest by implanting a fake blood sample inside a plastic tube in his arm to confound DNA tests.

Kanumuru Raghu Rama Krishna Raju is an Indian industrialist and politician who is serving as a Member of Parliament (MP) in the 17th Lok Sabha from Narasapuram constituency, Andhra Pradesh. He won the 2019 Indian general election as a YSR Congress Party candidate.

Ian Maxwell is a British businessman and co-founder of the think tank Combating Jihadist Terrorism. In the 1990s, Maxwell was charged with and acquitted of financial crimes related to the business practises of his father, publishing tycoon Robert Maxwell.

Daniel Funke is a German journalist. Since 2019 he is the head of the Berlin office for the German publishing house Hubert Burda Media and its chief lobbyist.

Mohammad Ismail Khan is a politician in Afghanistan, who served as Minister of Energy and Water from 2005 to 2013. He was previously the governor of Herat Province. He is widely known as a warlord because of his rise to power during the Soviet–Afghan War when he controlled a large mujahideen force, mainly his fellow Tajiks from western Afghanistan. He is a key member of the political party Jamiat-e Islami and was a member of the now defunct United National Front party.

Yeduguri Sandinti Sharmila, also known as Sharmila, is the younger sister of 17th Chief Minister of Andhra Pradesh Y. S. Jaganmohan Reddy and the daughter of Y. S. Rajasekhara Reddy and Y. S. Vijayamma. She is the current party convener of the Yuvajana Sramika Rythu Congress Party.

Sophie McShera is an English actress. She is known for her roles as Ros McCain in the fifth series of the BBC television series Waterloo Road, as Daisy Mason in the ITV television series Downton Abbey, and as Drizella Tremaine in the 2015 Disney film Cinderella.