List of Famous people born on January 1st

Iman Benson is an American actress from Atlanta, Georgia best known for her roles in Uncle Buck, Alexa & Katie, and BlackAF.

Ersin Destanoğlu is a Turkish professional footballer who plays as a goalkeeper for Süper Lig club Beşiktaş.

Nicholas George Garaufis is a Senior United States District Judge of the United States District Court for the Eastern District of New York.

Carol Shaw is one of the first female game designers and programmers in the video game industry. She is best known for creating the Atari 2600 vertically scrolling shooter River Raid (1982) for Activision. She worked for Atari, Inc. from 1978–1980 where she designed multiple games including 3-D Tic-Tac-Toe (1978) and Video Checkers (1980), both for the Atari 2600. She left game development in 1984 and retired in 1990.

Tatsuya Maruyama is a Japanese politician and current governor of Shimane Prefecture.

Susan Carol McDougal is one of the many people prosecuted as a result of the Whitewater controversy of the 15 individuals who were convicted of federal charges.

Donald Albin Blom is an American murderer serving life without parole in prison for the killing of Kathlyn "Katie" Poirier in 1999. A registered sex offender involved in five cases of kidnapping and sexual assault prior to Poirier's murder, he is suspected of being a serial killer by case investigators. Blom is serving his prison sentence at MCF-Faribault, a medium-security facility in Faribault, Minnesota.

Tony Appleton is a British town crier who is most notable for his unofficial announcements of royal events such as the birth of Prince George of Cambridge in 2013.

Shōji Yonemura is a Japanese writer from Fukuoka Prefecture. He is known mainly for his work in anime and tokusatsu. After having graduated from Tokyo Zokei University, he worked as a freelance writer in Arakawa and would attend various film festivals. Then, he studied with Kanji Kashiwabara and proceeded to win the Otomo Shoji Award seven times and became a screenwriter.

Neil Wallington is a former firefighter who served in the London Fire Brigade and wrote about his experiences in the 1979 book Fireman! A personal account. The book includes one chapter about the Worsley Hotel fire which claimed the lives of seven people including one firefighter. He subsequently went on to rise through the ranks of the fire service to become the Chief Officer of Devon Fire and Rescue Service, and has written several books about firefighting and the fire service.