List of Famous people born on January 1st

Stephen Hague is an American record producer most active with various British acts in the 1980s.

Chaneil Kular is a British actor. After making his debut as Tariq Amiri on the BBC soap opera Doctors in 2018, he began portraying the role of Anwar Bakshi in the Netflix comedy-drama series Sex Education in 2019.

Naoki Hisaya , born Naoki Hayashi , is a Japanese screenwriter who has worked for Tactics, Key and Siesta, but as of 2006, he is a freelance writer. He is well known for being the main writer of the popular visual novel Kanon while working under Key. Additional works include Moon, One: Kagayaku Kisetsu e, and Moon Childe. He is also known for being the original concept writer for Sola and Sora no Method. He later wrote the scenario for the action role-playing game Crystar. He also does work in a dōjin circle named Cork Board.

Theresa Hannig is a German science fiction author.

Christopher Crawford is a computer game designer and writer. He designed and programmed several important computer games in the 1980s, including Eastern Front (1941) and Balance of Power. Among developers he became known for his passionate advocacy of game design as an art form, founding both The Journal of Computer Game Design and co-founding the Computer Game Developers Conference. In 1992 Crawford withdrew from commercial game development and began experimenting with ideas for a next generation interactive storytelling system. In 2018, Crawford announced that he had halted his work on interactive storytelling, concluding that it will take centuries for civilization to embrace the required concepts.

Christian Parenti is an American investigative journalist, academic, and author.