List of Famous people born on January 1st

Leelavathi is an Indian actress who worked in Kannada, Tamil and Telugu films.She has acted with actors such as Dr. Rajkumar, Vishnuvardhan, M. G. Ramachandran, N. T. Rama Rao, Sivaji Ganeshan, Gemini Ganesan, Shankar Nag, Kamal Hassan, Rajinikanth, Chiranjeevi, V Ravichandran, Sudeep and various popular artists. She has acted in more than 600 films throughout her career for more than 50 years. Her performance in Naagarahaavu, Avargal are remembered and prominent among the people.

Joyce Napier is a Canadian television journalist. Formerly a correspondent for the news division of Société Radio-Canada, the French-language arm of the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation, she became, in March 2016, the parliamentary bureau chief for CTV News.

Karen Sue Pence is an American schoolteacher, painter, and was Second Lady of the United States from 2017 to 2021. She is married to the 48th Vice President of the United States, Mike Pence. She was the First Lady of Indiana from January 14, 2013 to January 9, 2017.

Nazanin Zaghari-Ratcliffe is an Iranian-British dual citizen who has been detained in Iran since 3 April 2016. In early September 2016 she was sentenced to five years' imprisonment after being found guilty of "plotting to topple the Iranian government". She was temporarily released on 17 March 2020.

Danny Fenster is an American journalist. He is the managing editor of Frontier Myanmar, a local news magazine. In the aftermath of the 2021 Myanmar coup d'état, Fenster became the only foreign journalist to be charged by military authorities. In August 2021, the National Press Club awarded Fenster with the 2021 John Aubuchon Press Freedom Award.

Lauren Wood, also known as Chunky, is an American singer-songwriter, voice-over artist and producer. Her 1989 single "Fallen" was used in the 1990 movie Pretty Woman, even though it was recorded eight years earlier. In 1979 she recorded "Please Don't Leave", a duet with singer Michael McDonald.

Tim Eriksen is an American musician, musicologist, and professor. He is the leader of the band Cordelia's Dad, a solo artist, and was a performer and consultant for the award-winning soundtrack of the film Cold Mountain.

Michel Onfray is a French writer and philosopher. Having a hedonistic, epicurean, and atheist world view, he is a highly prolific author on philosophy, having written more than 100 books. His philosophy is mainly influenced by such thinkers as Nietzsche, Epicurus, the Cynic and Cyrenaic schools, as well as French materialism.

Hansal Mehta is an Indian film director, writer, actor and producer. Mehta started his career in television with his show Khana Khazana (1993–2000) and later moved on to films like Jayate (1999), Dil Pe Mat Le Yaar!! (2000) and Chhal (2002). He is best known for Shahid (2013) for which he won the National Film Award for Best Direction. He then went on to direct City Lights (2014), Aligarh (2016), Simran (2017), Omerta (2018) and Scam 1992 (2020).

Stephen Forester Hayes is an American journalist and author. In October 2019 Hayes founded the online opinion and news publication The Dispatch. Previously, he was a senior writer for National Journal and Editor-in-chief of The Weekly Standard. He was a staunch proponent of the Iraq War and an influential figure in promoting the claim that the Saddam Hussein regime and Al Qaeda had an operational relationship, which was later determined to be false.