List of Famous people born on January 1st

Gülizar Biçer Karaca in Denizli, Turkey, is a Turkish politician and lawyer.

Thomas J. Wright is an American television director, film director, artist, and set designer. Wright has directed episodes of Smallville, One Tree Hill, Firefly, and many other programs. He also worked extensively on Chris Carter's Millennium, on which he was a producer as well as directing 26 of the show's 67 episodes. He also directed the 1989 Hulk Hogan film No Holds Barred. He also was the artist who created the paintings used in the television horror anthology series Night Gallery.

Jon Philip Lane is a British ice dancing coach and former competitor. With Janet Sawbridge, he is the 1968 World bronze medalist and a two-time European medalist.

Gregory Zeschuk is a former VP at Electronic Arts and General Manager at BioWare Austin. He co-founded BioWare in 1995 with Ray Muzyka and Augustine Yip, after all three earned their medical degrees from the University of Alberta. Zeschuk announced his retirement from BioWare on September 18, 2012. He is currently involved in a number of projects related to the craft-beer industry, including the production of a web-based interview show known as "The Beer Diaries." Greg is also the chairman of the board of the smart playground technology startup, Biba Ventures based in Vancouver, BC.

Haluk Dinçer is a Turkish business executive with over 35 years of experience. He has been Executive Board Member of Sabanci Holding Turkey's leading industrial and financial group, since February 2002, and Financial Services Group President since April 2020.

Troy Miller is an American film producer, director and screenwriter. He is best known for his work in comedy and has been nominated for 15 Emmy Awards with two wins. Miller is known as an innovator in alternative comedy, and has directed four feature films as well as directing and producing numerous TV shows and specials.

Julian Seward is a British compiler writer and Free Software contributor who lives in Stuttgart. He is commonly known for creating the bzip2 compression tool in 1996, as well as the valgrind memory debugging toolset founded in 2000. In 2006, he won a second Google-O'Reilly Open Source Award for his work on Valgrind.

Glenn Gordon Caron is an American television writer, director and producer, best known for the television series Moonlighting in the 1980s and Medium in the 2000s. He lives in Los Angeles, California.