List of Famous people born on January 3rd

Fatma Yıldırım is a Turkish female volleyball player.

Mário Ferreira dos Santos was a Brazilian philosopher, translator, writer and anarchist activist. Born in Tietê, São Paulo, Ferreira dos Santos was raised in Pelotas, Rio Grande do Sul, and graduated in Law and Social Sciences at the Federal University of Rio Grande do Sul.

Heiko Schaffartzik is a German professional basketball player for Hamburg Towers of the German Basketball Bundesliga. Schaffartzik is also a member of the Germany national basketball team.

Princess Marie of Liechtenstein is the eldest daughter of Prince Henri, Count of Paris, Duke of France and his former wife Duchess Marie Thérèse of Württemberg. She is the wife of Prince Gundakar of Liechtenstein, a great-grandson of Prince Alfred of Liechtenstein.

Selda Alkor is a Turkish actress, beauty pageant titleholder, painter, and singer of Circassian and Georgian descent. She received a Golden Orange in 2002. Her acting skills and European features made her one of the most in-demand Turkish actresses in the early 1970s. With marked Circassian characteristics, Alkor was famous for her tall height, natural blonde hair, fair skin, and light green eyes. Due to her portrayal of Sümbül Karadağ on the primetime ATV series Asmalı Konak, she was nicknamed "Hanım Ağa", old Turkish for matriarch. Alkor served as presidents of various foundations, including TÜRKSAV and SODER.

Samuel Muk Man Chu is a Hong Kong-born American activist and community organizer. Samuel is the founding and managing director of the Hong Kong Democracy Council (HKDC), the first and only DC-based nonpartisan, nonprofit organization dedicated to preserving Hong Kong's basic freedoms, the rule of law, and autonomy. Launched in 2019, HKDC has successfully passed landmark legislation such as the Hong Kong Human Rights and Democracy Act, the Hong Kong Autonomy Act, and numerous other policies supporting Hong Kong. HKDC and Chu also successfully pushed for economic sanctions and visa bans by the US on Chinese and Hong Kong officials responsible for the erosion of Hong Kong's basic freedoms and autonomy. In direct response, Hong Kong authorities issued arrest warrants against Samuel in July 2020, making him the first foreign citizen to be targeted under the Hong Kong National Security Law.

Tomonori Kogawa is a Japanese animator and character designer, often noted for his work in the 1980s with noted anime studio Sunrise.

Ross Lindsay Hart is a Canadian-American retired professional wrestler, promoter, trainer, booker, TV producer, coach and actor. Hart is a member of the Hart wrestling family and the second youngest son of Stu and Helen Hart. He is best known for his work in Stampede Wrestling and several appearances in WWE, often with his siblings Bruce, Keith, Bret, Diana and Owen Hart.

Ulyana Matveevna Gromova was a Ukrainian Soviet member of the Soviet underground resistance in World War II, executed by the Nazis. She is a posthumous Hero of the Soviet Union.

Arno Paulsen (1900–1969) was a German actor who appeared in around sixty films in the post-Second World War years. He also appeared frequently on stage and was also a voice actor dubbing foreign films for release in Germany. He appeared in a mixture of West German and East German films. He made his film debut in the 1946 rubble film Murderers Among Us.