List of Famous people born on January 1st

Christopher Francis Finlayson is a New Zealand lawyer and former Member of Parliament, representing the National Party. From 19 November 2008 until 26 October 2017 he was a Cabinet minister. He was the Attorney-General, Minister for Treaty of Waitangi Negotiations and, for a shorter period, Minister of Culture and Heritage. On 6 October 2014, Finlayson also assumed responsibility for the ministerial portfolios of Minister Responsible for the Government Communications Security Bureau and the Minister in Charge of the New Zealand Security Intelligence Service, New Zealand's two main intelligence agencies. He left parliament and politics in January 2019.

Chris DeWolfe is an American entrepreneur and the former chief executive officer and co-founder of Myspace. During DeWolfe's tenure, MySpace grew over 135 million worldwide unique visitors a month. DeWolfe is credited with challenging and reinventing the music label industry with the MySpace Music section, which allowed unsigned artists to post their music for free and launched the careers of several famous musicians, among them Lily Allen and Sean Kingston. Currently, DeWolfe is the chief executive officer of Jam City.

Chris C. Kemp is an American information technology executive and the founder, chairman and CEO of Astra, a publicly-traded space technology firm based in California. His career included serving as the Chief Information Officer for the NASA Ames Research Center in Mountain View, California and as NASA's first chief technology officer (CTO) for IT, as well as founding and leading several companies.

Joplin Sibtain, sometimes credited professionally as Chook Sibtain, is a British actor known for the Netflix series Safe, his seasons at the National Theatre and as Tarak Ital on the Doctor Who special, "The Waters of Mars". He voiced Olin on Horizon Zero Dawn. He won best actor at the New York Movie awards for the title role in Memory Man.