List of Famous people born on January 1st

Sarah Monette is an American novelist and short story author, writing mostly in the genres of fantasy and horror. Under the name Katherine Addison, she published the fantasy novel The Goblin Emperor, which received the Locus Award for Best Fantasy Novel and was nominated for the Nebula, Hugo and World Fantasy Awards.

Joe Hewitt is a software programmer who is best known for his work on the Firefox web browser and related software development tools like Firebug and DOM Inspector.

Jessica Julie Anne Garlick is a Welsh pop singer. Garlick made her first steps into showbusiness when she was 16. At that age she won the Welsh final of BBC One's talent show Star for a Night. The same year she also featured in Michael Barrymore's My Kind of Music. She is the highest placed British entrant at the Eurovision Song Contest in the 21st century so far, coming joint third in the 2002 contest.

Ben Frost is an Australian-Icelandic musician, composer, record producer, sound designer, and director.

Ruslan Rakhimovich Khamarov is a Ukrainian serial killer, who killed 11 women from 2000 to 2003. He was sentenced to life imprisonment.

Makyla Smith is a Canadian actress.

Andrew Hodges is a British mathematician and author.