List of Famous people born on January 1st

Eleanor Bergstein is an American writer, known for writing and co-producing Dirty Dancing, a popular 1980s film based in large part on her own childhood.

Hervé de Luze is a French film editor with about fifty feature film credits.

Robert "Rob" C. Pike is a Canadian programmer and author. He is best known for his work on the Go programming language and at Bell Labs, where he was a member of the Unix team and was involved in the creation of the Plan 9 from Bell Labs and Inferno operating systems, as well as the Limbo programming language.

Nicholas Hooper is a British film and television composer. He has scored the award-winning BBC productions Land of the Tiger and Andes to Amazon, as well as the TV movies The Girl in the Café and My Family and Other Animals among others. Hooper won a BAFTA Award and an Ivor Novello Award for Original Score in 2004 for The Young Visiters and a BAFTA for Best Original Television Music in 2007 for Prime Suspect: The Final Act.

Jean Westwood is a retired British ice dancer. With partner Lawrence Demmy, she was the World Champion for four consecutive years, 1952 - 1955, and European Champion in 1954 and 1955. She later became an elite-level skating coach in the United States and Canada.