List of Famous people born on January 1st

Jacob Maliekal is a male badminton player from South Africa. He became the South Africa national team members in 2009 and won gold medals at the 2011 and 2014 African Games in badminton men's singles event. He competed at the 2016 Summer Olympics held in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil.

Cameron Waldbauer is a Canadian special effects supervisor.

Hamish Purdy is a Canadian art director and set decorator.

Jamie Donoughue is an Oscar® nominated British film director, producer and writer. Known for directing short-film Shok that earned him critical praise and multiple international awards including an Academy Award for Best Live Action Short Film nomination at the 88th Academy Awards. In 2016 he went onto direct two episodes of the BBC / Netflix drama The Last Kingdom. This was followed by a new Netflix original series entitled The Innocents and the series finale of ITV's Endeavour.