List of Famous people born on January 1st

Sir Peter John Wood is an English entrepreneur, most notable as the founder of the Direct Line and esure insurance companies. Wood was knighted in the 2016 Birthday Honours for services to UK industry and philanthropy. In 2021 he was the 198th wealthiest person in Britain with an estimated personal fortune of £815 million, according to the Sunday Times Rich List 2021, and his activity in the past thirty years has given him an excellent reputation within the insurance industry.

Rick Simpson is an American set decorator. He won an Academy Award and was nominated for another in the category Best Art Direction.

Pilar Revuelta is a Spanish Production designer, Art director and Set decorator based in Madrid. Along with production designer Eugenio Caballero, she won an Oscar for Best Achievement in Art Direction in 2007 for Film director Guillermo del Toro's movie Pan's Labyrinth. Revuelta and Caballero also received a BAFTA nomination for Production Design for Pan's Labyrinth.

Peter Paphides is a British journalist and broadcaster.

Lakshminarayanan Mahadevan FRS is a scientist of Indian origin, and is currently the Lola England de Valpine Professor of Applied Mathematics, Organismic and Evolutionary Biology and Physics at Harvard University. His work centers around understanding the organization of matter in space and time.