List of Famous people born on January 1st

Allison Randal is a software developer and author. She was the chief architect of the Parrot virtual machine, a member of the board of directors for The Perl Foundation, a director of the Python Software Foundation from 2010 to 2012, and the chairman of the Parrot Foundation. She is also the lead developer of Punie, the port of Perl 1 to Parrot. She is co-author of Perl 6 and Parrot Essentials and the Synopses of Perl 6. She was employed by O'Reilly Media. From August 2010 till February 2012, Randal was the Technical Architect of Ubuntu at Canonical.

Tarek Alarabi Tourgane is a Syrian composer and singer of Algerian descent, best known for composing the theme songs for animated series in the Arab world.

Olayinka Koso-Thomas is a Nigerian-born doctor who lives in Sierra Leone. She is known internationally for her efforts to abolish female genital cutting. In 1998, she shared a Prince of Asturias Award for this work.

Nawwaf Moussawi is a Shia Lebanese member of parliament representing the Sour district. He is part of Hezbollah's bloc.