List of Famous people born on January 1st

Channarong Ratanaseangsuang, also known as Ratana, is a former badminton player and coach who represented both Thailand and Canada in international competition.

Wylie A. Stateman is an American supervising sound editor, sound designer, and post production media entrepreneur. Stateman has supervised over 150 sound projects, resulting in 9 Academy Awards, 6 BAFTA Awards, 2 Primetime Emmy Awards, and over 30 Motion Picture Sound Editor Awards.

Van Jacobson is an American computer scientist, renowned for his work on TCP/IP network performance and scaling. He is one of the primary contributors to the TCP/IP protocol stack—the technological foundation of today’s Internet. Since 2013, Jacobson is an adjunct professor at the University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA) working on Named Data Networking.

William David Arnett is a Regents Professor of Astrophysics at Steward Observatory, University of Arizona, known for his research on supernova explosions, the formation of neutron stars or black holes by gravitational collapse, and the synthesis of elements in stars; he is author of the monograph Supernovae and Nucleosynthesis which deals with these topics. Arnett pioneered the application of supercomputers to astrophysical problems, including neutrino radiation hydrodynamics, nuclear reaction networks, instabilities and explosions, supernova light curves, and turbulent convective flow in two and three dimensions.

Martha Holmes is a BAFTA Award-winning BBC Television producer and writer known for her wildlife documentaries.

Wyck Godfrey is an American film and television producer best known for producing The Twilight Saga series and The Maze Runner series. He is a partner of the production company Temple Hill Entertainment with his friend Marty Bowen, which they founded in 2006. In 2017, he was named President of Paramount Motion Pictures Group. In 2020, Godfrey left Paramount and returned to producing with Temple Hill Entertainment.

Bill Day is an American documentary filmmaker and YouTuber. Day worked for both the National Geographic Channel and Discovery Channel. For CNN, he produced a documentary film about the Osa Peninsula.