List of Famous people born on January 1st

Peter Webber is a British film and television director and producer whose debut feature film as a director was Girl with a Pearl Earring (2003). He subsequently directed Hannibal Rising (2007).

John P. Grotzinger is the Fletcher Jones Professor of Geology at California Institute of Technology and chair of the Division of Geological and Planetary Sciences. His works primarily focus on chemical and physical interactions between life and the environment. In addition to biogeological studies done on Earth, Grotzinger is also active in research into the geology of Mars and has made contributions to NASA's Mars Exploration Program.

William Joseph Marciano is an American theoretical physicist, specializing in elementary particle physics.

Stephen Carl Milne is an American mathematician who works in the fields of analysis, analytic number theory, and combinatorics.