List of Famous people born on January 1st

Michel Della Negra, born 1942, is a French experimental particle physicist known for his role in the 2012 discovery of the Higgs Boson.

Joanne Flockhart is a retired female badminton player of Scotland.

Aline Bonetto is a French production designer and set decorator, best known for her work with Jean-Pierre Jeunet on films such as Amélie (2001), A Very Long Engagement (2004), and Micmacs (2009), among others. Her work on the first two of those films each earned her the César Award for Best Production Design, as well as nominations for the Academy Award for Best Art Direction.

Ma Weiming is a Chinese electrical engineer. He is a professor of the PLA Naval University of Engineering. He is an academician of the Chinese Academy of Engineering and holds the military rank of rear admiral. He led the development of the electromagnetic catapult system for the Type 003 aircraft carrier and the development of electromagnetic railguns. In 2017, he was awarded the Order of August First, the highest honour of the People's Liberation Army.

Tom Sanders is an English mathematician, working on problems in additive combinatorics at the interface of harmonic analysis and analytic number theory.

John Murray Allan is a British businessman. He was the president of the CBI, and chairman of the supermarket chain Tesco and the housebuilder Barratt Developments.