List of Famous people born on January 1st

Wes Mannion is an Australian television personality, best known from the series The Crocodile Hunter as Steve Irwin's best friend and director of Australia Zoo.

Marco Morabito is an Italian producer and editor, best known for producing the film Call Me by Your Name, for which he was co-nominated for the Academy Award for Best Picture at the 90th Academy Awards.

Ron Hauge is an American television writer and executive producer.

Torstein Hagen is a Norwegian billionaire businessman, and the founder and chairman of Viking Cruises.

Wendy L. Watson Nelson is a Canadian-American marriage and family therapist, and professor. She worked with the Family Nursing Unit (FNU) at the University of Calgary from 1983 to 1992, training graduate students to use family systems therapy with families of patients. Her academic work in articles and in the book Beliefs: The Heart of Healing in Families and Illness helped develop a practical and theoretical framework for family systems nursing. She is the wife of Russell M. Nelson, president of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints.

Jaime Teevan is an American computer scientist known for her research in human-computer interaction and information retrieval. She is particularly known for the work she has done on personalized search. According to the Technology Review, Teevan "is a leader in using data about people's knowledge, preferences, and habits to help them manage information."

Amir Tag Elsir, also written Amir Taj al-Sir, is a Sudanese medical doctor and novelist, writing in Arabic. He has published more than 20 works of poetry, biography and novels, some of these translated into English or other languages. His novels deal with contemporary social issues, like poverty, the lives of refugees or diseases, such as Ebola.

Brian Howe is an American actor known for his portrayal of stockbroker Jay Twistle in the film The Pursuit of Happyness.