List of Famous people born on January 1st

Christine Madeleine Odette Lagarde is a French politician, businessperson and lawyer serving as President of the European Central Bank since 1 November 2019. Between July 2011 and September 2019, she served as Chair and Managing Director of the International Monetary Fund (IMF).

Raffi Quirke is an English rugby union player who plays for Sale Sharks in the Premiership Rugby.

Mullah Abdul Ghani Baradar, also called Mullah Baradar Akhund or Mullah Brother, is a co-founder of the Taliban in Afghanistan. He was the deputy of Mullah Mohammed Omar. Baradar was captured in Pakistan by a team of Inter-Services Intelligence (ISI) and Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) officers in February 2010 and was released on 24 October 2018 at the request of the United States.

Sandor Martin Clemente is a Spanish professional boxer who has held the European super-lightweight title since 2019.

Archibald Michael Graham is a British journalist and broadcast commentator, who presents The Independent Republic of Mike Graham on Talkradio. He was formerly the editor of the Scottish Daily Mirror and Programme Director and mid-morning presenter of The Independent Republic of Mike Graham on Talk 107, the Edinburgh sister station of Talksport.

Elena Ferrante is a pseudonymous Italian novelist. Ferrante's books, originally published in Italian, have been translated into many languages. Her four-book series of Neapolitan Novels are her most widely known works.

Joseph Chung-Hsin Tsai is a Taiwanese-Hong Kong-Canadian billionaire businessman and philanthropist. He is a co-founder and executive vice chairman of Chinese multinational technology company Alibaba Group. Born in Taiwan and educated in the U.S., he is a naturalized citizen of Canada. He owns the Brooklyn Nets of the National Basketball Association (NBA) and has interests in several other professional sports franchises.

Trevor Jeo Engelson is an American film producer and literary manager, whose work has included producing the TV series Snowfall, as well as the 2010 film Remember Me.

Sucheta Dalal is an Indian business journalist and author. She has been a journalist for over two decades and was conferred Padma Shri for journalism in 2006. She was the Financial Editor of the Times of India until 1998. She was then a Consulting Editor with the Indian Express group and wrote columns for the Indian Express and Financial Express until 2008.

Susan Lisa Rosenberg is an American activist, writer, advocate for social justice and prisoners' rights and a former terrorist. From the late 1970s into the mid-1980s, Rosenberg was active in the far-left revolutionary terrorist May 19th Communist Organization ("M19CO") which, according to a contemporaneous FBI report, "openly advocate[d] the overthrow of the U.S. Government through armed struggle and the use of violence". M19CO provided support to an offshoot of the Black Liberation Army, including in armored truck robberies, and later engaged in bombings of government buildings.