List of Famous people born on January 1st

Sue Graham Mingus is an American record producer and band manager. She is the widow of jazz composer and bassist Charles Mingus.

Masaaki Taniai is a Japanese politician of the New Komeito Party, a member of the House of Councillors in the Diet. A native of Niiza, Saitama, he attended Kyoto University and received a master's degree in agricultural economy from it. He also studied at Uppsala University in Sweden. He was elected to the House of Councillors for the first time in 2004.

Mary Parent is an American film producer, and former studio executive. In February 2011, she co-founded Disruption Entertainment, a company with a first-look deal at Paramount Pictures. She was formerly the Chairperson of Metro Goldwyn Mayer's Worldwide Motion Picture Group. She was a former President of Production for Universal Studios. There, she was responsible for Meet the Fockers, The Bourne Supremacy, Serenity, and other films. In 2004, Parent and Scott Stuber were named Vice Chairman of Worldwide Production for Universal Pictures. In 2005, Universal inked a production deal with the duo under the shingle Stuber/Parent Productions. Under Stuber/Parent, she has produced such films as Role Models (2008), Welcome Home Roscoe Jenkins (2008), The Kingdom (2007), and You, Me and Dupree (2006). She produced Guillermo del Toro's Pacific Rim, the Darren Aronofsky epic Noah and The SpongeBob Movie: Sponge Out of Water (2015). Parent worked at New Line Cinema in the 1990s.

Kareem Jackson, known by his stage name Tef Poe, is an American rapper, musician and activist.

Mark Weingarten is an American production sound mixer. He has been nominated for three Academy Awards in the category Best Sound Mixing, winning in 2017 for Dunkirk. He has worked on more than 80 films since 1987. In addition, he won an Emmy for the television show The West Wing.

Steve Michael Beck is a former American commercial and film director.