List of Famous people born on March 1st

João Klauss de Mello, commonly known as Klauss, is a Brazilian-Italian professional footballer who plays as a striker for Belgian club Standard Liège, on loan from Hoffenheim.

Michael David d'Abo is an English singer and songwriter, best known as the lead vocalist of Manfred Mann from 1966 to their dissolution in 1969, and as the composer of the songs "Handbags and Gladrags" and "Build Me Up Buttercup", the latter of which was a hit for The Foundations. With Manfred Mann, d'Abo achieved six top twenty hits on the UK Singles Chart including "Semi-Detached Suburban Mr. James", "Ha! Ha! Said The Clown" and the chart topper "Mighty Quinn".

Yoshinori Tokura is a Japanese physicist, Professor at University of Tokyo and Director of Center for Emergent Matter Science (CEMS) at RIKEN. He is a specialist in physics of strongly correlated electron systems and known for his work in high-temperature superconductivity, Mott transition, colossal magnetoresistance, Multiferroics, and magnetic skyrmions.

Chlodwig, Landgrave of Hesse was an officer in the Prussian Army and head of the Hesse-Philippsthal line of the House of Hesse.

Oliver Bäte is a German business executive who is the CEO of Allianz, a position he has held since October 2014.

Jia Qinglin is a retired senior leader of the People's Republic of China and of its ruling Communist Party. He was a member of the Politburo Standing Committee, the party's highest ruling organ, between 2002 and 2012, and Chairman of the National Committee of the People's Political Consultative Conference between 2003 and 2013. Jia's functions as the head of China's consultative legislative body were largely ceremonial in nature.

Edith Yah Brou is an Ivorian writer and activist. A co-founder of the volunteer organization Akendewa and the online women's magazine Ayana, she is considered one of the most influential digital activists in Ivory Coast and a "prominent Ivorian blogger."

Christophe Horlaville is a French former footballer who had a 13-year career with Oissel, Rouen, Cannes, Guingamp, Le Havre, Port Vale (England), Metz, and Caen.

Dmitri Ivanovich Gunko is a Russian professional football coach and a former player, currently the head coach of FC Ararat-Armenia in Armenia.