List of Famous people born on January 1st

Brad Turner is a Canadian film director, television director and photographer.

Robert Hamilton Austin is an American physicist and a professor of physics at Princeton University.

Dr. Khaled S. Al-Sultan was the fourth rector of King Fahd University for Petroleum and Minerals (KFUPM) a public university in Dhahran, Saudi Arabia and the first to have graduated from the institution to hold this position. Dr. Al-Sultan is married and has two children.

Khaled al-Johani is a teacher of religious instruction in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia. He was imprisoned, without charges or trial for nearly one year, at ʽUlaysha Prison for having publicly asked for freedoms and democracy in Saudi Arabia – an absolute monarchy – during the 2011–2012 Saudi Arabian protests. His public statement was made to a BBC Arabic Television team on a street in Riyadh in the presence of security forces. On 22 February 2012 he was charged in a court for al-Qaeda suspects and a trial date set for April 2012. Al-Johani is an Amnesty International prisoner of conscience as of February 2012.