List of Famous people born on January 1st

Paul Jackson was an American jazz electric bassist and composer. He played on several of Herbie Hancock's albums, including Head Hunters and Thrust.

Cilia Adela Gavidia Flores de Maduro is a Venezuelan lawyer and politician. She is married to the President of Venezuela Nicolás Maduro, making her the First Lady. Since 2015, she has also been a deputy in the National Assembly of Venezuela, of which she was president from 2006 to 2011, for her home state of Cojedes. In 2017, the Constituent National Assembly was founded, in which she is a member of the Presidential Commission.

Brian Willis Gutekunst is an American football executive who is currently the general manager for the Green Bay Packers of the National Football League (NFL).

Nassef Onsi Sawiris is an Egyptian billionaire businessman, the youngest of Onsi Sawiris' three sons. As of April 2019, his net worth was estimated to be $7.5 billion, and the fourth richest African in 2019, according to Forbes.

CR Karsanbhai Khodidas Patel is an Indian billionaire businessman, industrialist and founder of the Rs. 42,500 crore Nirma group a company with major business interests in cements, detergents, soaps and cosmetics. As of 2020 Forbes has listed his net worth at US$ 3.8 billion. He has interests in education, and founded leading pharmacy college and a leading engineering college/ university.

Justin Orvel Schmidt is an American entomologist, co-author of Insect Defenses: Adaptive Mechanisms and Strategies of Prey and Predators, author of The Sting of the Wild, and creator of the Schmidt sting pain index. Schmidt studied honey bee nutrition, chemical communication, physiology, ecology and behavior at the Carl Hayden Bee Research Center in Tucson, Arizona, before taking lead and devoting full-time to The Southwestern Biological Institute in 2006. As research director of the Southwest Biological Institute, he studies the chemical and behavioral defenses of ants, wasps, and arachnids.

Sir Mark Ivan Rogers is a former senior British civil servant, who was the Permanent Representative of the United Kingdom to the European Union from 4 November 2013 until his resignation on 3 January 2017.

Lauren Schmidt Hissrich is an American television producer and screenwriter. She is the executive producer and showrunner of the television series The Witcher.

Leon Rose is an American basketball executive, attorney and sports agent. He serves as president of the New York Knicks of the National Basketball Association (NBA). As a sports agent, Rose represented a number of prominent NBA players, including Allen Iverson and LeBron James

İsmet Uçma was a Turkish politician and member of the Turkish Parliament. Uçma was a member of the Justice and Development Party and a MP for Istanbul. He died on 11 October 2021 due to lung cancer.