List of Famous people born on January 1st

Pei-Yuan Wei is a Taiwanese-American businessman who created ViolaWWW, the first popular graphical web browser.

Tucker Gates is an American television director and producer. He has directed several episodes of the ABC series Alias and Lost. He has also directed episodes of Bates Motel, Weeds, Carnivàle, Point Pleasant, Huff, Boston Legal, Roswell, Brothers & Sisters, Homeland, House of Cards, Ray Donovan, The Office, and Parks and Recreation.

Kelly Masterson is an American screenwriter, playwright and writer who lives in New York. He wrote the screenplay for the film Before the Devil Knows You're Dead, for which he is perhaps best known. Before moving to New York to stage several of his early plays, he studied Theology at the University of California, Davis.

Nathaniel Joseph Fisch is an American plasma physicist known for pioneering the excitation of electrical currents in plasmas using electromagnetic waves, which was then used in tokamak experiments. This contributed to an increased understanding of plasma wave-particle interactions in the field for which he was awarded the James Clerk Maxwell Prize for Plasma Physics in 2005 and the Hannes Alfvén Prize in 2015.

Hammond Peek is a New Zealand sound engineer. He has won two Academy Awards for Best Sound and has been nominated for another two in the same category. Of Māori descent, Peek affiliates to Ngāi Tahu and Te Āti Awa.

Alison L. Booth is an Australian labour economist and novelist who is professor of economics at the Australian National University. She is the author of five novels. These are Stillwater Creek (2010), The Indigo Sky (2011), A Distant Land (2012), A Perfect Marriage (2018) and The Philosopher's Daughters (2020).

David Elliot Hoberman is an American film and television producer, best known as the co-creator and executive producer of the USA Network television series Monk, and the founder and co-owner of Mandeville Films. He has produced over 40 films in his career, including the 2010 drama film The Fighter, for which he was nominated for the Academy Award for Best Picture.

Katherine Ann Dettwyler is an American anthropologist and advocate of breastfeeding. She was an adjunct professor at the University of Delaware. In 2017, she gained media attention for her comments regarding Otto Warmbier, a 22-year-old college student who received fatal brain damage while imprisoned in North Korea.