List of Famous people born on January 1st

Chris Lattner is an American software engineer best known as the main author of LLVM and related projects such as the Clang compiler and the Swift programming language. He joined SiFive as Senior Vice President of Platform Engineering,after two years at Google Brain. Prior to that, he briefly served as Vice President of Autopilot Software at Tesla, Inc. and worked at Apple Inc. as Senior Director of the Developer Tools department, leading the Xcode, Instruments, and compiler teams.

Julian Okwara is an American football defensive end for the Detroit Lions of the National Football League (NFL). He played college football at Notre Dame and was drafted by the Lions in the third round of the 2020 NFL Draft.

John Andrew Quale is an American singer, songwriter, and performer best known by the stage name and persona of Prince Poppycock. Quale, who specializes in musical theater and opera, describes Prince Poppycock on his website as a "roguish operatic dandy."

Anne Dias is a French-American investor and philanthropist. She is the founder and CEO of Aragon, an investment firm active in global equities, with a focus on the internet, technology, and consumer sectors, as well as alternative assets.

Jeffrey J. Carter is a Canadian professional ice hockey centre for the Pittsburgh Penguins of the National Hockey League (NHL). He previously played for the Philadelphia Flyers, Columbus Blue Jackets and Los Angeles Kings. He was drafted 11th overall by the Flyers in the 2003 NHL Entry Draft.

Imaad Zuberi is an American entrepreneur, venture capitalist, philanthropist and political fundraiser. He is a partner in Avenue Ventures and has written about foreign investments. Among his major investments is the Al Areen Palace & Spa resort in Bahrain. He is under criminal investigation by federal prosecutors for a $900,000 donation to Trumps's inaugural committee through his company Avenue Ventures LLC, and for matters relating to other campaign contributors to members of both parties.

Sue Jones-Davies is a Welsh actress, singer and politician. She played Judith Iscariot in the film Monty Python's Life of Brian (1979) and was Mayor of Aberystwyth from 2008 to 2009.

Arif Susam is a Turkish new wave artist. His style combines traditional Turkish tunes with synthesized instruments. He was very popular in the 80s and early 90s with fellow artists like Nejat Alp, Ümit Besen, Cengiz Kurtoğlu and Atilla Kaya.

Darryl McCray, better known by his tagging name "Cornbread", is a graffiti practitioner from Philadelphia. McCray was born in North Philadelphia in 1953 and raised in Brewerytown, a neighborhood of North Philadelphia. During the late 1960s, he and a group of friends started doing graffiti in Philadelphia, by writing their monikers on walls across the city. The movement spread to New York City and blossomed into the modern graffiti movement, which reached its peak in the U.S. in the late 1970s and early 1980s, and then spread to Europe. Since his tagging days, McCray has developed a close relationship with The Philadelphia Mural Arts Program. He is a public speaker and a youth advocate.