List of Famous people born on January 1st

Jürgen Schornagel is a German actor. He has appeared in more than one hundred films since 1966.

Marc-Uwe Kling is a German songwriter, author, and Kabarett artist. He studied philosophy and drama at Freie Universität Berlin.

Keizaburō Tejima is a Japanese artist and children's picture book author. He is known for his books and their illustrations. Tejima's illustrative technique is woodblock. Books he has written and illustrated include Fox's Dream, Owl Lake, Swan Sky and The Bear's Autumn.

Hussa bint Ahmed Al Sudairi (1900–1969) was one of the many spouses and cousins of King Abdulaziz and the mother of King Fahd and King Salman, monarchs of Saudi Arabia. Her sons Sultan, Nayef, and Salman served successively as Crown Prince during their half-brother Abdullah's reign, as their brother Fahd had done during the reign of Khalid, another half-brother. Her adult sons are informally known as the Sudairi Seven.

Mark Liu is executive chairman of the Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Co (TSMC), the world’s largest contract chipmaker, since June 2018, taking over from founder and chairman of TSMC Morris Chang when he retired. TSMC has a market value of approximately US$585 billion.

Colin Morgan is a Northern Irish actor. He is best known for playing the title character in the BBC fantasy series Merlin.

Safia Farkash al-Haddad is the widow of former Libyan leader Muammar Gaddafi and former First Lady of Libya and incumbent Representative of Sirte, and mother of seven of his eight biological children.

Devadarshini is an Indian actress who appears in Tamil and Telugu Language films and television series. She began her career as a television anchor before venturing into acting, first in television and then in films. She mainly appears in supporting roles and often performs comic roles.

Guan Yi is a Chinese virologist. In 2014, he was ranked as 11th in the world by Thomson Reuters among global researchers in the field of microbiology. He obtained his PhD in microbiology at the University of Hong Kong and is now a professor of microbiology at his alma mater. His research on the viral respiratory disease SARS helped the Chinese government avert the 2004 outbreak of this disease. He is the current Director of the State Key Laboratory for Emerging Infectious Diseases University of Hong Kong. In early 2017, Guan warned that the H7N9 influenza virus "poses the greatest threat to humanity than any other in the past 100 years."

Kirsten Anne Powers is an American author, columnist, and political analyst. She currently writes for USA Today, and is an on-air political analyst at CNN, where she appears regularly on Anderson Cooper 360°, CNN Tonight with Don Lemon, and The Lead with Jake Tapper. The Washington Post called her "bright-eyed, sharp-tongued, [and] gamely combative". The New Republic noted Powers "held her own in any debate" at Fox News and quoted columnist Erik Wemple, who called her "a ferocious advocate for her points of view".