List of Famous people born on January 1st

Maxime Pedneaud-Jobin is a Canadian politician, who was elected Mayor of Gatineau in the city's 2013 municipal election. Previously a city councillor for the city's Buckingham District, he defeated incumbent mayor Marc Bureau in what was widely seen as a surprise victory.

Masaaki Yanagishita is a former Japanese football player and manager.

Fionnuala Sweeney is an Irish anchorwoman and reporter. She had been based at CNN's headquarters in Atlanta, Sweeney was anchoring CNN Newsroom as well as serving as the primary substitute at the International Desk. She is known around Europe as the host of Eurovision Song Contest 1993 from Millstreet, County Cork.

Ivanno Jeremiah is an English actor known for his role in Humans.

Jorge Eduardo Hirsch is an Argentine American professor of physics at the University of California, San Diego. He is known for inventing the h-index in 2005, an index for quantifying a scientist's publication productivity and the basis of several scholar indices.