List of Famous people born on January 1st

Mimi Schmir is an American television producer and screenwriter. Her most notable work has been for the medical drama Grey's Anatomy, for which she has served as producer, supervising producer and writer for over thirty episodes, and the legal drama Shark, as writer and consulting producer.

Ming Hsieh is a billionaire Chinese-born American entrepreneur and philanthropist. He is the founder of Cogent Systems in 1990. In 2011, he founded Fulgent Genetics, a genetic testing technology company that provides comprehensive genetic testing solutions. According to Forbes magazine, his estimated net worth exceeds $1.6 billion, ranking him the 198th richest person in America and 562nd among The World's Richest People In 2006.

Jeffrey (Jeff) Thomas Alu is an American musician, photographer, graphic artist, and amateur astronomer who has participated in the Palomar Planet-Crossing Asteroid Survey. The asteroid 4104 Alu was named in his honour.

Colin James Beacom, is a male former international badminton player who competed for England.

Hayato Yuge (弓削 隼人, is a Japanese professional baseball pitcher for the Tohoku Rakuten Golden Eagles in Japan's Nippon Professional Baseball. He made his NPB debut in 2019.