List of Famous people born on January 1st

Alain J. Maury is a French astronomer.

Anya Major is an English athlete, actress, model and singer who starred in Apple Computer's's "1984" commercial, and in 1985 appeared as "Nikita" in the video to Elton John's song of the same name.

Pieter Bourke is an Australian musician, composer, producer and audio engineer. From 1995 he has recorded several projects with Dead Can Dance founder Lisa Gerrard, and was a touring member of Dead Can Dance's 1996 Spiritchaser Tour. On 14 April 1998 Bourke and Gerrard issued a world music album, Duality. From 1993 he also collaborated with industrial musician, David Thrussell, first as part of the latter's band Snog, then together as the ambient duo, Soma. In 2001, he formed a dub reggae outfit, Secret Masters, with Brian Westbrook. Bourke and Gerrard have received two shared Golden Globe nominations for 'Best Original Score', in 2000 for The Insider (1999), and in 2002 for Ali (2001).

James Handy is an American film actor. He appeared in more than eighty films and television serials between 1977 and 2011. His most notable appearances are as Arthur Devlin in Alias and Lou Handleman in Profiler.

Dirkir Kohn Glay is a Liberian professional footballer who lastly played for Indonesian club side Persiba Balikpapan in the Liga 1. He formerly plays for KF Tirana in the Albanian Superliga.