List of Famous people born on January 1st

Sridhar Vembu is an Indian billionaire business magnate and the founder and CEO of Zoho Corporation. According to Forbes, he is the 59th richest Indian in the world with a net worth of US$2.5 billion as of 2020. He was awarded India's fourth highest civilian award the Padma Shri in 2021.

Linna Huynh is a Canadian television presenter, actress and model currently based in Hong Kong under contract with TVB.

Carole Mallory is an American author, actress, former model, teacher and critic who appeared in the films Looking for Mr. Goodbar and The Stepford Wives. She was the nine-year companion of writer Norman Mailer and kept notes and her writings with his edits, selling them to Harvard University in 2008, after his death.

Stella Kunkat is a German actress.

Richard Holian is a Leeds-born actor most famous for playing the title role in the BBC children's television programme Jonny Briggs, that ran for two series in 1985 and 1986.

Christoph Bach is a German actor, living in Berlin. He was born in Reutlingen, and received his education at Universität der Künste in Berlin.

Géraldine Muhlmann is a French political scientist and political journalist. She is a former host of the France 5 program C politique (Fr).

Thomas F. Kelly is an American musician, best known for his songwriting partnership with Billy Steinberg. Steinberg and Kelly co-wrote numerous hit songs for popular music artists, including five number-one singles on the Billboard Top 100 chart in the 1980s.

Danny Joseph Bakewell is an American civil rights activist and entrepreneur. He is the owner of The Bakewell Company, which includes among its holdings the New Orleans radio station WBOK and the Los Angeles Sentinel newspaper. He is currently Chairman of the National Newspaper Publishers Association.

Henry Augustus Stephen Pierre was one of the earliest Venezuelan proponents of rock and roll music.