List of Famous people born on January 1st

Angélique Ionatos in a Greek-born singer, guitarist and composer. Much of her focus is on setting classical and modern Greek texts. She has lived as member of the Greek diaspora in France since 1981 or earlier, having originally left Greece, in order to be reunited with her family, as a fifteen-year-old in 1969. Her family's emigration the previous year had come in the context of the widespread political persecution that followed the Coup d'état of 21 April 1967, which had seen a far-right military junta take power in Athens. Between 1969 and 1981 she grew up with her parents and elder brother in Liege.

André Tegeler, known by his stage name Moguai is a German music producer and DJ from Marl. In the early 1990s, Tegeler took the alias Moguai and began organising his own club nights and parties in Ruhrgebiet and Münsterland. He became one of the first techno DJs in Germany, sharing a platform with the likes of Paul van Dyk, Westbam and Sven Väth. In more recent years, however, Moguai's sound has developed to include a combination of tech-house, progressive house, big beat and electro house. He has also worked in more mainstream areas of the music industry, producing for the likes of the Sugababes, Girls Aloud and 2Raumwohnung, which earned him double platinum and gold disc awards.

Anne Benoît is a French actress. She has appeared in more than 60 film and television productions since 1981.

Carmen Rigalt Tarragó is a Spanish journalist and novelist.

Jean-Luc Vasseur is a French football manager, currently in charge of the women's team of Lyon.

Jean-Claude Michéa, born in 1950, is a retired philosophy professor and French philosopher, author of several essays devoted in particular to the thought and work of George Orwell. Libertarian socialist, he is known for his committed positions against the dominant currents of the left which, according to him, has lost all spirits of anti-capitalist struggle to make way for the “religion of progress”. Advocating several moral values near the George Orwell's socialism, Jean-Claude Michéa excoriates the leftist intelligentsia that had, according to him, got away from the proletarian and popular world. He champions collective moral values in a society more and more individualistic and liberal, using only the law and the economy to justify itself. He “considers that the liberal bourgeois models had prevailed upon socialism, in swallowing it up” and “regrets that the socialism had accepted the political liberalism’s theories”

Rosalía Valdés Julián is a Mexican former singer and actress. She is the daughter of Mexican comedian Germán Valdés and former singer Rosalía Julián. Her performance in the movie El Vuelo de la cigüeña (1979) earned her a Heraldo prize. She is now retired from the entertainment industry.

Li Xiaolin is a Chinese businesswoman, currently serving as vice-president of the China Datang Corporation, a state-owned power generation enterprise. She is the former CEO of China Power International Development. She is the only daughter of former Chinese Premier Li Peng and his wife Zhu Lin. She was trained as a power generation engineer at Tsinghua University.

Blanche Ravalec is a French actress, dubbing artist, and former stewardess.

Sam Spruell is a British-American actor.