List of Famous people born on January 1st

Richard Greatrex is an English cinematographer. He was nominated for the Academy Award for Best Cinematography for his work on Shakespeare in Love (1998). Other films shot by Greatrex include Mrs Brown (1997), A Knight's Tale (2001), and The Upside of Anger (2005). He has won one BAFTA Award, along with three additional nominations.

Richard Halsey is an American film editor with more than 60 credits from 1970 onwards. An alumnus of Hollywood High School, he won an Academy Award for Best Film Editing at the 49th Academy Awards for editing Rocky with Scott Conrad, also being nominated for one BAFTA and one Emmy Award. He often works with his wife Colleen and they are credited together. Both have been elected to membership in American Cinema Editors (A.C.E.); Halsey has been a member since 1988. He is now living in the Hollywood Hills.

Richard Burt Melrose is an Australian mathematician, who works on geometric analysis, partial differential equations, and differential geometry.