List of Famous people born on January 1st

John Swan, better known as Swanee, is an Australian rock singer.

Jamie Anne Allman is an American actress. She is known for her role as Terry Marek on AMC's The Killing.

Ian Joseph Brzezinski is an American foreign policy and military affairs expert.

Brendan O'Neill is a British columnist. He is the editor of Spiked and has been a columnist for The Australian and The Big Issue.

Susan Elizabeth Black is a British computer scientist, academic and social entrepreneur. She has been instrumental in saving Bletchley Park, the site of World War II codebreaking, with her Saving Bletchley Park campaign. Since 2018, she has been Professor of Computer Science and Technology Evangelist at Durham University. She was previously based at the University of Westminster and University College London.

Dermot Francis Shea is a former American police officer and administrator who was the 44th New York City Police Commissioner. He assumed the position on December 1, 2019, and was sworn in by Mayor Bill de Blasio in a public ceremony on December 2.

Luke Montgomery is an American LGBT political activist, social media marketing activist, democratic digital strategist and viral video director.

Heino Falcke is a German professor of radio astronomy and astroparticle physics at the Radboud University Nijmegen. He was a winner of the 2011 Spinoza Prize. His main field of study is black holes, and he is the originator of the concept of the 'black hole shadow'. In 2013, a team under his lead earned a 14 million euro research grant from the European Research Council to further studies of black holes. In 2019, Falcke announced the first Event Horizon Telescope results at the EHT Press Conference in Brussels.

Zühtü Arslan is a high-ranked judge and the president of the Constitutional Court of Turkey since February 10, 2015.

Richard Mylan is a Welsh actor and former dancer. He is best known for his roles as Leroy Jones in The Bill and Grownups as Chris.