List of Famous people born on January 1st

Richard Gutjahr is a German TV presenter and blogger. He is known for covering the terror attacks in Nice and Munich in mid-2016 with a mobile phone, and he "explained how basic mobile technology allowed him to cover the two attacks".

Emilie Beneš Brzezinski is a Swiss American sculptor and the widow of Zbigniew Brzezinski.

Star Wars Kid is a viral video made in 2002 by Ghyslain Raza in which he wields a golf ball retriever in imitation of Darth Maul's lightsaber moves from the film Star Wars: Episode I – The Phantom Menace, hence the name. At the time, Raza was a 15-year-old high school student from Trois-Rivières, Québec, Canada. He had not intended for the video to become public, but its subsequent release led to ridicule during which Raza chose to distance himself from the video. Raza since has affirmed his identity and has used the video to help to speak on the effects of bullying and harassment.

Shaurya Doval is a private equity professional and a public policy thinker. He is associated with the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP).

Fatima bint Mubarak Al Ketbi is the third wife of Sheikh Zayed bin Sultan Al Nahyan, the founder and inaugural president of United Arab Emirates, and emir (ruler) of Abu Dhabi. She is referred to as the Mother of sheikhs and as the Mother of the UAE.

Phellipe Haagensen Cerqueira is a Brazilian actor best known for his role of Benny in the 2002 film, City of God . He is the younger brother of model and actor Jonathan Haagensen. He is a member of the band Guerreiros de Jorge.

Yvonne Farrell is an Irish architect and academic. She is the co-founder of Grafton Architects, which won the World Building of the Year award in 2008 for their Bocconi University building in Milan. The practice won the inaugural RIBA International Prize in 2016 for their Universidad de Ingeniería y Tecnología building in Lima, Peru, and was awarded the 2020 Royal Gold Medal. In 2017 she was appointed, along with Shelley McNamara, as curator of the 16th Venice Biennale of Architecture in 2018. She won the Pritzker Architecture Prize in 2020, also with McNamara.

Chantal Thomas is a French writer and historian. Her 2002 book, Farewell, My Queen, won the Prix Femina and was adapted into a 2012 film starring Diane Kruger and Léa Seydoux.

Victor Marrero is a Senior United States District Judge of the United States District Court for the Southern District of New York.

Yūki Okabayashi is a professional Japanese baseball player. He plays outfielder for the Chunichi Dragons.