List of Famous people born on January 1st

Jon Spaihts is an American screenwriter and author.

Jonah H. Peretti is an Internet entrepreneur, a co-founder and the CEO of BuzzFeed, co-founder of The Huffington Post, and developer of reblogging under the project "Reblog".

Nega Mezlekia is an Ethiopian writer who writes in English. His first language is the Amharic language, but since the 1980s he has lived in Canada so speaks and writes in English.

Jonathan Milton Nelson is an American businessman and investor. He is the founder of Providence Equity Partners, a global private equity firm based in Providence, Rhode Island, which manages funds with US$40.7 billion (inflation-adjusted) in commitments.

Matt Gordon is a Canadian actor, perhaps best known for playing Doc in the sports sitcom Rent-a-Goalie, and for his portrayal of Officer Oliver Shaw in the drama series Rookie Blue.

Joseph McGrath is a Scottish film and television director and screenwriter. He was born in Glasgow and studied at Glasgow School of Art in the late 1940s and early 1950s where his energy and talent was much admired by his contemporaries.

Josh Friedman is an American screenwriter and television producer best known for his work on the science-fiction action series Terminator: The Sarah Connor Chronicles, the film adaptation of H. G. Wells' War of the Worlds (2005), and the neo-noir The Black Dahlia (2006) and Terminator: Dark Fate (2019). He is co-writing Avatar 2, produced by James Cameron.