List of Famous people born on January 1st
Claerwen James
Claerwen Laura James is a British painter.
Shaynna Blaze
Shaynna Blaze is an Australian interior designer, television personality, writer and former singer. She is best known for her work as a co-host on Selling Houses Australia (2008–2020), Buying Blind (2018–present), in 2021 she won Celebrity Apprentice Australia, and has starred onThe Block (2012–present).
Manuel Bartual Paredes
Manuel Bartual is a Spanish cartoonist and graphic designer born in Valencia in 1979.
Nick Hanauer
Nicolas J. Hanauer is an American entrepreneur and venture capitalist.
Brooke Knapp
Nancy Brooke Knapp is an American aviator, entrepreneur and realtor, best known for setting or breaking more than 100 world aviation speed records including the fastest speed around the world in a civilian jet aircraft in a Gulfstream III.
Michael Hancock
Michael B. Hancock is an American businessman, author and politician serving as the 45th and current Mayor of Denver, Colorado since 2011. A member of the Democratic Party, he was in his second term as the Denver City Councilor from the 11th district at the time he was elected to the mayorship.
James Hedges
James "Jim" Hedges is an American politician who served as the Tax Assessor for Thompson Township, Pennsylvania and as the Prohibition Party's 2016 presidential nominee. He is currently the only member of the Prohibition Party to be elected to public office in the 21st century, and the first since 1959.
Alessandro Molon
Alessandro Lucciola Molon is a Brazilian teacher and politician, member of the Brazilian Socialist Party (PSB) and current Leader of the Opposition in the Chamber of Deputies. He was the rapporteur to Brazil's Bill of Rights for the Internet, ensuring net neutrality, privacy protection and freedom of expression online. He is also one of the leading figures of the fight against corruption - in 2018, he was recognized by Prêmio Congresso em Foco as the congressman who best fights corruption and organized crime. In 2017 and 2019, he was chosen by the jury of the award and by journalists, respectively, as the best federal deputy in Brazil.
Eileen Myles
Eileen Myles is an American poet and writer who has produced more than twenty volumes of poetry, fiction, non-fiction, libretti, plays, and performance pieces over the last three decades. Novelist Dennis Cooper has described Myles as "one of the savviest and most restless intellects in contemporary literature." In 2012, Myles received a Guggenheim Fellowship to complete Afterglow, which gives both a real and fantastic account of a dog's life. Myles uses they/them pronouns.
Anna Burns
Anna Burns is an author from Ireland. Her novel Milkman won the 2018 Man Booker Prize and the 2020 International Dublin Literary Award.