January 1 is the birthday of 91 notable people we've found so far, including entrepreneurs, politicians, authors and historical figures, and 6 of them are billionaires.
$19.6Breported estimate as of February 2026 · Forbes
Wang Ning is a Chinese businessman. He is the CEO of Pop Mart, a Chinese toy company he founded in 2010. As of February 2026, Wang has an estimated net worth of US$19.6 billion, according to Forbes.
Joseph Chung-Hsin Tsai (Chinese: 蔡崇信; Pe̍h-ōe-jī: Chhòa Chông-sìn; born January 19, 1964) is a Taiwanese-Canadian billionaire business magnate, lawyer, and philanthropist. He is a co-founder and chairman of the Chinese multinational technology company Alibaba Group.
Mark Richard Walter is an American businessman, philanthropist, and the chief executive officer of Guggenheim Partners, a privately held global financial services firm with more than $345 billion in assets under management.
Charles Thomas Munger was an American businessman, investor, and philanthropist. He was the vice chairman of Berkshire Hathaway, the conglomerate controlled by Warren Buffett, from 1978 until his death in 2023.
Hashim Sujono Djojohadikusumo is an Indonesian entrepreneur and politician who is the younger brother of Indonesian president Prabowo Subianto. In 2014, he was considered a billionaire. As of December 2020, Forbes estimates his net worth at $800 million.
Lembaga Pendidikan Indonesia, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons
Industries of the companies the 7 wealthy people born on January 1 founded or led.
entertainment50% (1 people)
retail50% (1 people)
Who shares January 1
What kind of people are born on January 1?
Share of the 91 people we list, by documented field. People can belong to more than one.
Entrepreneurs33% (30 people)
Politicians29% (26 people)
Authors23% (21 people)
Actors14% (13 people)
Athletes14% (13 people)
Scientists13% (12 people)
Creators11% (10 people)
Countries
46 countries, most often United States
Citizenship as recorded on Wikidata, one country per person.
United States21 (21 people)
United Kingdom8 (8 people)
France6 (6 people)
India3 (3 people)
Japan3 (3 people)
Australia2 (2 people)
Brazil2 (2 people)
Life timeline
What were people born on January 1 doing at your age?
Dated milestones from Wikidata (company foundings, awards, top jobs, notable works), placed at the age each person reached them. Add your birth year above to see the ones you have passed.
Leonid Ilyich Brezhnev was a Soviet politician who served as General Secretary of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union from 1964 until his death in 1982. He also held office as Chairman of the Presidium of the Supreme Soviet from 1960 to 1964 and later from 1977 to 1982.
John Edgar Hoover was an American law enforcement administrator who served as the fifth and final director of the Bureau of Investigation (BOI) and the first director of the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI).
Marion S. Trikosko, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons
John Michael Jumper is an American chemist and computer scientist. Jumper, Demis Hassabis and David Baker were awarded the 2024 Nobel Prize in Chemistry for protein structure prediction.
Sir Martin John Evans FLSW is an English biologist who, with Matthew Kaufman, was the first to culture mice embryonic stem cells and cultivate them in a laboratory in 1981.
Cardiff University, CC BY 3.0, via Wikimedia Commons
Jerome David Salinger was an American writer best known for his 1951 novel The Catcher in the Rye. Salinger published several short stories in Story magazine in 1940, before serving in World War II.
Photo by Lotte Jacobi, per a credit in the bottom-left corner of the original dust jacket's back cover. Published by Lit, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons
Barry Morris Goldwater was an American politician and major general in the Air Force Reserve who served as a United States senator from 1953 to 1965 and 1969 to 1987, and was the Republican Party's nominee for president in the 1964 election.
Trikosko, Marion S., photographer, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons
Vajiravudh was the sixth king of Siam from the Chakri dynasty, titled Rama VI. He reigned from 1910 until his death in 1925. King Vajiravudh is best known for his efforts to create and promote Siamese nationalism.
ร้านถ่ายรูปหลวงฉายานรสิงห์, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons
Gary Earl Johnson is an American businessman and politician who served as the 29th governor of New Mexico from 1995 to 2003 as a member of the Republican Party.
Alfred Stieglitz was an American photographer and modern art promoter who was instrumental over his 50-year career in making photography an accepted art form.
Alfred Stieglitz, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons
Isis Naija Gaston, known professionally as Ice Spice, is an American rapper and songwriter. Born and raised in the Bronx, New York City, she began her musical career during college in 2020, after meeting record producer RiotUSA.
Verne Jay Troyer was an American actor, comedian and occasional stunt coordinator and performer. He was best known for playing Mini-Me in the Austin Powers film series. He had cartilage–hair hypoplasia and was 2 ft 8 in (81 cm) tall.
George Washington Carver was an American agricultural scientist and inventor who promoted alternative crops to cotton and methods to prevent soil depletion. He was one of the most prominent Black scientists of the early 20th century.
Eiichiro Oda is a Japanese manga artist and the creator of the series One Piece, the best-selling manga in history and the best-selling comic series printed in volume.
Vidya Balan is an Indian actress. Known for pioneering a change in the portrayal of women in Hindi cinema with her roles in female-led films, she is the recipient of several awards, including a National Film Award and seven Filmfare Awards.
Bollywood Hungama, CC BY 3.0, via Wikimedia Commons
Ruddy Lilian Thuram-Ulien is a French author, philanthropist and former professional footballer who played as a defender. He was capable of playing both as a centre-back or as a right-back, and helped both offensively and defensively.
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Paul Revere was an American silversmith, military officer and industrialist who played a major role during the opening months of the American Revolutionary War in Massachusetts, engaging in a midnight ride in 1775 to alert nearby minutemen of the approach of British troops prior to the battles of Lexington and Concord.
John Singleton Copley, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons
Sonali Bendre, is an Indian actress predominantly known for her work in Hindi and Telugu films. One of the leading actresses of the 1990s, Bendre started her career as a model and marked her acting debut with Aag (1994), which won her the Filmfare Award for New Face of the Year.
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Christine Madeleine Odette Lagarde is a French politician and lawyer who has been the president of the European Central Bank since 2019. She previously served as the 11th Managing Director of the International Monetary Fund (IMF) from 2011 to 2019.
European Parliament from EU, CC BY 2.0, via Wikimedia Commons
Edward Morgan Forster was an English author. He is best known for his novels, particularly A Room with a View (1908), Howards End (1910) and A Passage to India (1924). He also wrote numerous short stories, essays, speeches and broadcasts, as well as biographies and pageant plays.
Dora Carrington (1893–1932), Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons
Davor Šuker is a Croatian football administrator and former professional player who played as a striker. He served as the president of the Croatian Football Federation (HNS) from 2012 to 2021.
Ludovic Péron, CC BY-SA 3.0, via Wikimedia Commons
Carver Dana Andrews was an American film actor who became a major star in what is now known as film noir and later in Western films. A leading man during the 1940s, he continued acting in less prestigious roles and character parts into the 1980s.
László Josef Willinger, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons
Satyendra Nath Bose was an Indian theoretical physicist and mathematician. He is best known for his work on quantum mechanics in the early 1920s, in developing the foundation for Bose–Einstein statistics, and the theory of the Bose–Einstein condensate.
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Gonzalo Ariel Montiel is an Argentine professional footballer who plays as right-back for the Argentine Primera División club River Plate and the Argentina national team.
Roberto Rivellino, known mononymously as Rivellino, is a Brazilian football pundit and former player who was one of the key members of Brazil's 1970 FIFA World Cup-winning team.
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Noor-un-Nisa Inayat Khan, GC, also known as Nora Inayat-Khan and Nora Baker, was a British-Indian agent in France in the Second World War who served in the Special Operations Executive (SOE).
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Shou Zi Chew is a Singaporean business executive who has been the chief executive officer (CEO) of TikTok, an online video platform owned by Chinese company ByteDance, since 2021. He was also the previously chief financial officer (CFO) of Xiaomi.
Photographer: Lukasz Kobus, CC BY 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons
Frederick Wiseman was an American filmmaker, documentarian, theater director, editor, and actor. His work primarily explored American institutions. His most notable documentaries include Titicut Follies (1967), Hospital (1970), Welfare (1975), and In Jackson Heights (2015).
Charlotte Henard, CC BY-SA 2.0, via Wikimedia Commons
Charles Pierre de Frédy, Baron de Coubertin, also known as Pierre de Coubertin and Baron de Coubertin, was a French educator and historian, co-founder of the International Olympic Committee (IOC), and its second president. He is known as the father of the modern Olympic Games.
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Sifan Hassan is an Ethiopian-Dutch middle- and long-distance runner. She is most recognized for her versatility in running championship and world-leading performances in widely disparate distances.
Erik van Leeuwen (bron: Wikipedia)., CC BY-SA 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons
David Pablo Nalbandian is an Argentine former professional tennis player. He reached his highest ranking in singles of world No. 3 in March 2006, during a career that spanned from 2000 to 2013. Nalbandian was runner-up in the singles event at the 2002 Wimbledon Championships.
Jon Stevens Corzine is an American financial executive and retired politician who served as a United States senator from New Jersey from 2001 to 2006, and the 54th governor of New Jersey from 2006 to 2010.
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Entrepreneur · Fox Film Corporation · entertainment
1879–1952 · Hungary
Vilmos Fried, known professionally as William Fox, was a Hungarian-American film industry executive who founded the Fox Film Corporation in 1915 and the Fox West Coast Theatres chain in the 1920s.
20th Century Studios, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons
This page lists 91 people born on January 1, every one traced to a Wikidata record and, where shown, a Wikipedia summary (CC BY-SA) and a licensed Wikimedia Commons photo. 7 of them carry a dated net-worth estimate citing Forbes or Bloomberg; combined wealth is the sum of the low end of those estimates, the newest as of February 2026. Rankings compare all 366 dates in the dataset built on 2026-09-28. Milestone ages come from dated Wikidata statements; a tilde marks year-only dates. Nothing on this page is a prediction about anyone born on January 1. Read the full methodology.
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