List of Famous people born on January 1st

Robert Mammone is an Australian actor. He is known for his role as AK in The Matrix movies, as Sid Walker in the soap opera Home and Away and as Tim Palmer in Sons and Daughters. He was also the main villain to former WWE wrestler Stone Cold Steve Austin in the WWE Films action movie The Condemned, and portrayed Carlos "Charlie" Blanka in Street Fighter opposite Jean-Claude Van Damme and Raul Julia.

Willie Bester is a South African painter, sculptor and collage artist. He is best known for his role in the protesting of the apartheid system through his artwork. He currently lives in Kuilsrivier, South Africa with his wife, Evelyn and their three children.

Sylvia Serfaty is a French mathematician working in the United States. She won the 2004 EMS Prize for her contributions to the Ginzburg–Landau theory, she won the Henri Poincaré Prize in 2012, and she won the Mergier–Bourdeix Prize of the French Academy of Sciences in 2013.

Nancy Haigh is an American set decorator who has received eight Academy Award nominations, and won two for her work on Bugsy and Once Upon a Time in Hollywood.