List of Famous people born on January 1st

Adrian Hall is a former English actor and co-director. He is best known for the film Chitty Chitty Bang Bang (1968), in which he played the part of Jeremy Potts. He was previously Principal of the Academy of Live and Recorded Arts (ALRA) until he resigned in 2021.

Homen Borgohain was an eminent Assamese author and journalist. He had worked as the editor in chief of Assamese daily Niyomiya Barta until his death. He was awarded the 1978 Sahitya Akademi Award in Assamese language for his novel Pita Putra. Borgohain also wrote several novels, short stories and poetry. He was also the President of Assam Sahitya Sabha.

Benedict Taylor is a British avant-garde violist, violinist and composer.

Ephraim Mirvis is an Orthodox rabbi who serves as the Chief Rabbi of the United Hebrew Congregations of the Commonwealth. Traditionally the Chief Rabbi serves as the head of all British Jews as the Chief Rabbi of the United Kingdom and Commonwealth. He served as the Chief Rabbi of Ireland between 1985 and 1992.

Krazy George Henderson is an American professional cheerleader who created the Wave.

Joseph Lee Druce is an American convicted murderer. While already serving a life sentence, Druce killed John Geoghan, a defrocked Roman Catholic priest who was convicted of sexually abusing children, and who had also been at the center of the Catholic sexual abuse scandal.

Barry Hankerson is an American record producer and manager who founded and ran Blackground Records.

Daniel Mallory is an American editor and author who writes under the name A. J. Finn. His 2018 novel The Woman in the Window debuted at number one on the New York Times Best Seller list and has been adapted into a feature film. Mallory came to attention in 2019 for lying extensively about his past in order to excuse personal shortcomings and illegitimately further his literary work and career.

Diane B. Greene is an American technology entrepreneur and executive. Greene started her career as a naval architect before transitioning to the tech industry, where she was a founder and the CEO of VMware from 1998 until 2008. She later served on the board of Alphabet and as the CEO of Google Cloud from 2015 until early 2019. She also co-founded and was CEO of two startups, Bebop and VXtreme, which were acquired by Google and Microsoft, respectively.

Hayato Imai is a Japanese serial killer who murdered three elderly people at a nursing home in Saiwai-ku, Kawasaki between November and December 2014. A former emergency medical technician, he was sentenced to death, and is currently trying to appeal said sentence.