List of Famous people born on January 1st

David Eric Edmunds is a British mathematician working in analysis.

Jennifer Kydd is a Canadian actress best known for her role as Paige Bradshaw in the Global Television series Falcon Beach.

David L. Lambert is a British-American Astronomer, who does research on stellar atmospheres, the chemical composition of stars, and the chemical evolution of the universe.

Rocky Morton is an English director. He was the co-creator of the TV series Max Headroom and co-director of the 1993 Hollywood Pictures film Super Mario Bros. Various music videos by Tom Tom Club, Talking Heads, Gravity Kills, Orgy, George Harrison and Miles Davis are credited to Morton. Alongside his partner, Annabel Jankel, the duo made their television debut with the original Max Headroom: 20 Minutes into the Future, and its Americanized version. The duo made their big-screen debut with D.O.A., starring Dennis Quaid and Meg Ryan.

José Pérez was a Uruguayan footballer. He played in 20 matches for the Uruguay national football team from 1913 to 1920. He was also part of Uruguay's squad for the 1916 South American Championship.

David S. Touretzky is a research professor in the Computer Science Department and the Center for the Neural Basis of Cognition at Carnegie Mellon University. He received a BA in Computer Science at Rutgers University in 1978, and earned a master's degree and a Ph.D. (1984) in Computer Science at Carnegie Mellon University. Touretzky has worked as an Internet activist in favor of freedom of speech, especially what he perceives as abuse of the legal system by government and private authorities. He is a notable critic of Scientology.