List of Famous people born on January 1st

Eberhard Rüger is a German former ice dancer who represented East Germany. With his skating partner, Annerose Baier, he became a three-time Blue Swords champion, the 1968 Prize of Moscow News champion, and an eight-time East German national champion. They finished in the top ten at eight ISU Championships. Their best continental result, fourth, came at the 1970 European Championships in Leningrad, Soviet Union. They finished as high as sixth at the World Championships, in 1969 and 1970.

Kevin Gillis is a TV producer, TV writer, singer-songwriter, and former TV host mainly known for his work in animation. He is famous for creating the Raccoons franchise as well as other cartoons such as Atomic Betty and Producing Parker. He was also host of the fitness show Yes You Can and was originally managing director at Breakthrough Animation. Gillis is co-founder and CEO of Skywriter Media & Entertainment Group which develops, produces and distributes television and other forms of media. He was also President of Skyreader Media Inc., an affiliated company of Skywriter Media & Entertainment Group, which produces, develops and distributes interactive e-books.

Khalifa Natour is an Israeli Palestinian actor. Born in Qalansawe in 1965-1966, Natour attended Beit Zvi School for the Performing Arts where he played Othello and Timon of Athens in student productions. He graduated from Beit Zvi in 1991. Since then he has performed on the stage and in films, both inside and outside Israel. His film credits include The Band's Visit (2007), The Other Son (2012), and Tikkun (2015). He has one of the lead roles in season three (2020) of the Netflix television series Fauda.

Khalifa Ababacar Sall is a Senegalese politician. He is a former government minister and a former mayor of Dakar.