List of Famous people born on January 1st

John K. Emery, better known by his professional name of Jack Emery, is a British director, writer and producer for stage, TV and radio. He was born in 1944 and educated at Keele University. He began his career producing and acting at Keele, most notably in his first one-man show taken from the novels and plays of Samuel Beckett, called A Remnant, which played in the West End, the Edinburgh Festival and toured worldwide. In 1968 Emery recorded an album, featuring extracts from the show, for Saga Psyche label.

Tricia Brock is American film/television director, film producer and television writer.

Yuk-ming Dennis Lo FRS is a Hong Kong scientist. He is a professor of chemical pathology at the Chinese University of Hong Kong. He is the director of the Li Ka Shing Institute of Health Sciences. Lo is a fellow of the Royal Society.