List of Famous people born on July 1st

Joseph Marshall Walker was a Louisiana soldier and politician and the 13th Governor of Louisiana, from 1850-1853. He is best known for being the first Governor inaugurated in the new state capital building in Baton Rouge.

Willard Leroy Metcalf was an American artist born in Lowell, Massachusetts. He studied at the School of the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, and later attended Académie Julian, Paris. After early figure-painting and illustration, he became prominent as a landscape painter. He was one of the Ten American Painters who in 1897 seceded from the Society of American Artists. For some years he was an instructor in the Women's Art School, Cooper Union, New York, and in the Art Students League, New York. In 1893 he became a member of the American Watercolor Society, New York. Generally associated with American Impressionism, he is also remembered for his New England landscapes and involvement with the Old Lyme Art Colony at Old Lyme, Connecticut and his influential years at the Cornish Art Colony.

François Abou Mokh, BS was a Curial Bishop in the Melkite Patriarchate of Antioch in Syria.

Yang Yue is a Chinese politician, and the current head of the United Front Department of the Jiangsu provincial organization of the Communist Party of China. He previously held office as Communist Party Secretary of Fuzhou and Vice Governor of Jiangsu. Yang had extensive background in the Communist Youth League. He was an alternate member of the 18th Central Committee of the Communist Party of China.