List of Famous people born on January 1st

Stephanie Savage is a Canadian screenwriter and television producer. Savage is best known for developing The CW's teen drama series Gossip Girl (2007) from the novel series, and being an executive producer of the Fox series The O.C.. In 2010 Savage and creative partner Josh Schwartz created Fake Empire Productions, a production company producing their TV series, films and music.

Greer Shephard is an American television producer and director. She was an executive producer on the FX series Nip/Tuck. She is an executive producer on the TNT series, The Closer. Along with Michael M. Robin, Shephard created the Shephard/Robin production company which produces the Ryan Murphy-created Nip/Tuck and Popular. Shephard is an executive producer of TNT's The Closer spinoff series Major Crimes.

Greg McLean is an Australian film director, producer and writer. He rose to fame in 2005 with his debut feature film, Wolf Creek, creating one of Australia's most memorable and horrific characters, Mick Taylor. The long-awaited sequel to his first feature, Wolf Creek 2 was released February 2013. Mclean also wrote, directed and produced Rogue (2007) and was executive producer of Red Hill (2010) and Crawlspace (2012). He is also the co-author of two novels about the fictional character Mick Taylor; Wolf Creek: Origin and Wolf Creek: Desolation Game and the four-part comic book series Dark Axis: Secret Battles of WW2 and the graphic novel Sebastian Hawks – Creature Hunter. In 2016, his film, The Darkness, was released to theaters, and a Wolf Creek TV series was released on Australian streaming service Stan.

Kwek Leng Beng is a Singaporean billionaire businessman. He is the executive chairman of Hong Leong Group Singapore. In September 2019, Forbes estimated his net worth to be US$3.4 billion.

Georgy Tikhonovich Krutikov (1899–1958) was a Russian constructivist architect and artist, noted for his Flying City.