List of Famous people born on January 1st

Ben Snow is a special effects artist who has been nominated four times at the Academy Awards. He works at Industrial Light & Magic.

Stéphane Cornicard is a multilingual actor and director, who trained in France with François David, French director and writer, at Colby College, U.S. and at Goldsmiths, University of London, UK.

Peter Wilcox Jones is a mathematician at Yale University, known for his work in harmonic analysis and fractal geometry. He received his Ph.D. at the University of California, Los Angeles in 1978, under the supervision of John B. Garnett. He received the Salem Prize in 1981. He is an elected member of the U.S. National Academy of Sciences (2008), the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences (2008), and the American Academy of Arts and Sciences (1998). He is not related to the mathematician Vaughan Jones.

Manny Elias is an Indian-born British drummer and record producer, notable for being the original drummer with Tears for Fears during the 1980s.

Guy Gross is an Australian film and television composer. He is known most for writing the award-winning music for the Australian science fiction series Farscape and the international hit film The Adventures of Priscilla, Queen of the Desert. He also composed for the animated television series Blinky Bill and Dumb Bunnies. He has 76 credits as screen composer.

Lillian Rich was an English-born actress of the silent era. She appeared in 66 films between 1919 and 1940.