List of Famous people born on January 1st

David Niall Wilson is an American writer primarily known for his works of horror, science fiction, and fantasy fiction.

Don Daglow is an American computer game and video game designer, programmer and producer. He is best known for being the creator of early games from several different genres, including pioneering simulation game Utopia for Intellivision in 1981, role-playing game Dungeon in 1975, sports games including the first interactive computer baseball game Baseball in 1971, and the first graphical MMORPG, Neverwinter Nights in 1991. He founded long-standing game developer Stormfront Studios in 1988.

Zeka Laplaine, sometimes credited as José Laplaine, is a director and actor from Ilebo in the Democratic Republic of the Congo. The child of a Portuguese father and Congolese mother, he moved to Europe when he was 18. His 1996 short film Le Clandestin was featured at the 2010 Amakula International Film Festival in Uganda. He portrayed a cowboy alongside Danny Glover in Death in Timbuktu, a film within a film in the Council of Europe Film Award-winning film, Bamako. Laplaine is a member of France's "Guilde Africaine des Realisateurs et Producteurs".

Ivo Battelli was an Italian architect and set decorator. His work was part of the architecture event in the art competition at the 1932 Summer Olympics.

Gwen Sterry Simmers (1905–?) was an English tennis player. She competed at Wimbledon eight times, reaching the fourth round in 1931.

Jon Caramanica is an American journalist and pop music critic who writes for The New York Times. He is also known for writing about hip hop music.