List of Famous people born on January 1st
Bob Enyart
Bob Enyart was an American talk radio host and pastor of Denver Bible Church. He was an outspoken critic of vaccinations and mandated masks for the prevention of COVID-19.
Alice Dwyer
Alice Dwyer is a German actress. She has appeared in more than seventy films since 1999.
Scottie Barnes
Scott Wayne Barnes Jr. is an American professional basketball player for the Toronto Raptors of the National Basketball Association (NBA). He played college basketball for the Florida State Seminoles. He was selected with the fourth overall pick by the Toronto Raptors in the 2021 NBA Draft.
Jella Haase
Jella Haase is a German actress. Haase began acting in theatre at a very early age. Her film credits include Lollipop Monster, Fack ju Göhte and Kriegerin. She has also appeared on the television shows Polizeiruf 110 and Alpha 0.7 – Der Feind in dir. She won the Bavarian Film Award for Best Young Actress in 2012, the Günter Strack Television Award in 2013 and earned one nomination at the German Film Awards in 2014.
Stella Immanuel
Stella Gwandiku-Ambe Immanuel is a Cameroonian-American physician and pastor. In mid-2020 amid the COVID-19 pandemic, a video featuring her became viral on social media. In the video, she claimed that hydroxychloroquine could cure COVID-19, and that public health measures such as the wearing of face masks and social distancing are ineffective and unnecessary. Social media platforms removed her videos and posts for promoting misinformation related to the pandemic.
Heather Mack
Heather Mack is an American killer who served 6 years of a 10 year prison sentence for murdering her mother, Sheila von Wiese-Mack, while on vacation in Bali, Indonesia in August 2014. The murder was widely publicized internationally because Mack and her boyfriend stuffed von Wiese-Mack's body in a suitcase and Mack was to receive a large inheritance.
İbrahim Tatlıses
İbrahim Tatlıses is a Turkish folk singer and former actor. Since the 1970s he has been one of the best-known and most successful singers of the pop Arabesk style. Tatlıses has recorded 42 albums, including notable albums such as Ayağında Kundura and Selam Olsun and was the host of the highly popular television programme İbo Show. He was also a leading actor that appeared in several dozen films, and also has had many business ventures.
George Fan
George Fan is an American video game designer who currently works as the creative director of All Yes Good. He is known for designing Plants vs. Zombies (2009) whilst working at PopCap Games, in addition to developing Insaniquarium (2001) and Octogeddon (2018). Before going into game design, Fan graduated from the University of California, Berkeley, in 2000 with a degree in computer science. After graduating, he worked under Arcade Planet to develop games for their website, Prizegames.com. He eventually formed Flying Bear Entertainment and created Insaniquarium, which became a finalist for the 2002 Independent Games Festival. He then joined Blizzard Entertainment and worked there while simultaneously developing Insaniquarium further for PopCap Games, releasing the "Deluxe" edition in 2004.
Ben Garrison
Benjamin R. Garrison is an American alt-right political cartoonist and artist. His cartoons are popular with the alt-right and with believers in the QAnon conspiracy theory, because they depict these ideologies approvingly and promote them. A number of his cartoons have been controversial; they have been widely characterized as sexist, racist, Islamophobic, anti-vaccine and antisemitic by various media commentators, including by the Anti-Defamation League. They have also been criticized for attempting to deny climate change, promoting attempts to overturn the 2020 United States presidential election, and opposing the ”deep state”. His cartoons often lionize American conservative figures and politicians such as former President Donald Trump and Rand Paul, and demonize liberal, moderate, and Never Trump movement figures such as President Joe Biden and Hillary Clinton. Some alt-right activists have edited his comics to incorporate antisemitic content, including the antisemitic "Happy Merchant" caricature.
Tyson Yoshi
Tyson Yoshi is a Hong Kong rapper, singer, and songwriter. He is an independent artist and was formerly part of the Hip Hop and R&B label Greytone Music (灰階音樂). He released his first official song “TO MY QUEEN” in 2018. In July 2019, he released "Christy", which was his first song that surpassed 1 million views on Youtube. His first album 1st was then released in 2019. He is one of Hong Kong's most well known hip hop artist and rapper with over 2 million streams on Spotify in more than 100 countries in 2019, one of the highest of any Hong Kong artists.