List of Famous people born on January 1st

Quintino Fernandes Rodrigues Silva is a Portuguese former road cyclist. Professional from 1992 to 2004, he notably competed in two editions of the Giro d'Italia and the Vuelta a España.

Katarzyna Anna Bachleda-Curuś is a Polish speed skater, who was born in Sanok and resides in Zakopane.

Marcus Gilbert is an American professional basketball player for APOEL B.C. of the Cyprus Basketball Division A. Previously, Gilbert played college basketball for Fairfield University where he was All-MAAC in 2015 and 2016.

Otto Sanchez is an American actor best known for playing Carmen Guerra in the HBO prison drama Oz. He also played the role of Otto in the short-lived drama Kidnapped. He appeared as a supporting character in Bad Boys II. He played the lead role of Paul in the film Push which won awards at The Long Island Film Festival. He has also been seen in NBC's Law & Order, Law & Order: Special Victims Unit, Law & Order: Criminal Intent, Third Watch, 100 Centre Street, Burn Notice and most recently Blue Bloods.

Michael Kellner is a German politician who has been serving as a Member of the Bundestag representing electoral constituency Uckermark – Barnim I since 2021.

Harris Johns is a European music producer, active since the late-1970s in the heavy metal and punk scene, working for a lot of big-name bands, such as Helloween, Coroner, Tankard, Sodom, Voivod, Kreator, Exumer, Ratos de Porão, Slime, Daily Terror and many others. Most of his productions were recorded at his studio Music Lab Berlin Studio. After 10 years recording in a former guest house in the countryside near Berlin, which he called Spiderhouse, he reopened the Music Lab Berlin in 2007 and gave it up 2016. He is still producing and teaching music production skills.