List of Famous people born on March 1st

Atilla Koç is a Turkish politician of the Justice and Development Party. He was the Minister of Culture and Tourism in the first cabinet of Recep Tayyip Erdogan.

Molly Shaffer Van Houweling is an American cyclist, academic and legal scholar. Van Houweling is Professor of Law and Associate Dean at the UC Berkeley School of Law and serves as the chair of the board of Creative Commons. Van Houweling is also on the board of Authors Alliance a non-profit organization that helps authors disseminate their work broadly. She received her J.D. from the Harvard Law School in 1998. After law school she clerked for Judge Michael Boudin of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the First Circuit, and then in 2000-2001 for Justice David Souter of the U.S. Supreme Court. She was previously on the faculty of the University of Michigan Law School before moving to UC Berkeley.

Mariya Aleksandrovna Fomina is a Russian theater and film actress.

Yang Hyeon-jong is a Korean professional baseball pitcher for the Texas Rangers of Major League Baseball (MLB). He previously played in the Korea Baseball Organization (KBO) for the KIA Tigers from 2007 to 2020. He won the Korean Series in 2009 and 2017, and was the Korean Series MVP and KBO MVP in 2017 as well.

Russell Girard Wong is an American actor of film and television. He was one of the first actors of Chinese descent to hold a leading role in a primetime American television series, portraying Jian-Wa in Vanishing Son, first in a series of a made-for-television films followed by a 13-episode syndicated series. He has appeared in numerous films and series including Abel Ferrara's China Girl, New Jack City, The Joy Luck Club, Takedown, The Monkey King, Romeo Must Die, and The Mummy: Tomb of the Dragon Emperor.

David Babunski is a Macedonian footballer who plays as an attacking midfielder for Romanian club Viitorul Constanța.

Dmitry Viktorovich Kochnev is a Russian army general. From June 2015 to May 2016, he was the head of the Russian Presidential Security Service and as acting head from June to December 2015. Since 26 May 2016, he has been the Director of the Federal Protective Service. He was promoted to the rank of army general in early June 2021.

Niko Kappel is a German Paralympic athlete of short stature. He represented Germany at the 2016 Summer Paralympics in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil and he won the gold medal in the men's shot put F41 event. He has qualified to represent Germany at the 2020 Summer Paralympics in Tokyo, Japan.

Dylan Teuns is a Belgian professional road racing cyclist, who currently rides for UCI WorldTeam Team Bahrain Victorious.

Volker Wieker is the former Chief of Staff of the Bundeswehr, the German armed forces, and a general of the German Army. Trained as an artillery officer, Wieker served in every major foreign Bundeswehr deployment since 1996, including Bosnia, Kosovo and Afghanistan.