List of Famous people born on January 1st

Brian A. Miller is an American television producer and the current Senior Vice President and General Manager of Cartoon Network Studios in Burbank, California, having assumed the title in 2000. He was formerly Vice President of Production at Nickelodeon Animation Studio, Vice President of Production at Hanna-Barbera, and Vice President of Production at DIC Entertainment. He served as a production supervisor for 1983's Alvin and the Chipmunks series and was the executive in charge of production for various shows in the 1990s and early 2000s such as Dexter's Laboratory, CatDog, Hey Arnold!, The Angry Beavers, ChalkZone, The Adventures of Jimmy Neutron, Boy Genius, The Powerpuff Girls, Captain Planet and the Planeteers, Adventures of Sonic the Hedgehog, Cow and Chicken, Johnny Bravo, and the first and early second season of SpongeBob SquarePants.

Academy Award-nominated producer Broderick Johnson is the co-founder and co-CEO of Alcon Entertainment, which he formed with his producing partner Andrew Kosove in 1997. Under his leadership, Alcon Entertainment has financed and produced and/or co-financed and co-produced over 30 films to date.

Gong Hyo-suk is a South Korean cyclist, who currently rides for UCI Continental team LX Cycling Team.

Bryan Kirkwood is a British television producer. He was the producer of the Channel 4 soap opera Hollyoaks from 2006 until 2009, and was the executive producer of the BBC soap EastEnders from 2010 until 2012. He returned as the executive producer of Hollyoaks in late 2012, with his episodes set to air until June 2021.

Bill Pankow is an American film editor with more than 40 film credits dating from 1982. Pankow has edited nine films for director Brian De Palma commencing with Body Double in 1984. His other credits include:

• Body Double (1984)
• The Untouchables (1987)
• Parents (1989)
• The Comfort of Strangers (1990)
• The Funeral (1996)
• Snake Eyes (1998)
• Femme Fatale (2002)
• The Black Dahlia (2006)
• Trespass (2011)
• Domino (2019)

Mohamed Tahir Ayala is a Sudanese politician who served as Prime Minister of Sudan from February to April 2019. He previously served as the governor of Gezira state beginning in 2015. On 11 April 2019, he was deposed along with the other members of the government in the 2019 Sudanese coup d'état.

Ben Richards is an English writer. Before writing novels and TV dramas, he worked for three years as a housing officer in Newham and Islington, London. As a research student at UCL's Department of Geography he spent a year investigating public housing in Chile and on his return to Britain began his first novel "to alleviate the boredom of analysing questionnaires" for his PhD thesis. Richards was a lecturer at the University of Birmingham and at University College London, where he taught development studies, specialising in South America. He is now a full-time writer.