List of Famous people born on January 1st

Gene Jones is an American actor, best known for his roles in No Country for Old Men (2007) and The Sacrament (2013), with the latter earning him a nomination for a Fangoria Chainsaw Award as Best Supporting Actor.

Kim Soon-ok is a South Korean television screenwriter. Kim is best known for writing the television dramas Temptation of Wife (2008-2009) and Jang Bo-ri is Here! (2014), and My Daughter, Geum Sa-wol (2015-16), all of which are criticized for their provocative themes but are currently the highest-rated dramas ever aired in their respective time slots.

Richard Marc Losick is an American molecular biologist. He is the Maria Moors Cabot Professor of Biology at Harvard University, a Howard Hughes Medical Institute Investigator, He is especially noted for his investigations of endospore formation in Gram positive organisms such as Bacillus subtilis.

Richard Fred Chandler is a New Zealand-born billionaire businessman. He is chairman of the Clermont Group, a Singapore-based business group that invests in public and private companies across a range of industries, including energy, financial services, consumer, and healthcare. Chandler "has a reputation for buying struggling companies and successfully rebuilding them," according to Australian Broadcasting Corporation News. He also has been known to "take a business approach to philanthropy."

Kompakt is a Cologne-based electronic music independent record label and vinyl/CD distributor, owned by Wolfgang Voigt, Michael Mayer and Jürgen Paape. They specialize in microhouse and minimal techno, and are known for their Total compilation series which reached its seventeenth installment in 2017.