List of Famous people born on January 1st

Suu Minazuki is a Japanese manga artist from Asakura, Fukuoka Prefecture best known for his fantasy comedy manga series Heaven's Lost Property, which has been adapted into an anime television series and two feature films.

LaVelle Smith Jr is an American choreographer and dancer. Known for his work in the music videos of singers such as En Vogue, Michael Jackson, Janet Jackson and Beyoncé Knowles, Smith has won the MTV Video Music Award for Best Choreography five times.

Ikuo Nakamura is a Japanese photographer.

Joseph Anthony Kloska is an English actor. He began his career in radio, moving on to work in television, theatre, and film.

Mark N. Wegman is an American computer scientist known for his contributions to algorithms and compiler optimization. Wegman received his B.A. from New York University and his Ph.D. from the University of California, Berkeley. He joined IBM Research in 1975, where he currently serves as head of Computer Science. He is a member of the IBM Academy of Technology and a Fellow of the Association for Computing Machinery (1996) and the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers. He became an IBM Fellow in 2007. He was elected to the National Academy of Engineering in 2010.

Margaret Ann Mollo is a British set decorator, fashion model and garden designer. She was nominated for an Academy Award in the category Best Art Direction for the film The French Lieutenant's Woman.

John Vause, an Australian journalist, is an Atlanta-based presenter for CNN International. Before that, he was a Beijing correspondent responsible for coverage of China and the region. Before CNN, he was the Los Angeles bureau chief for the Seven Network in Australia. He is one of a few reporters who covered 9/11 from New York, then travelled to Pakistan, and then to Afghanistan for the fall of the Taliban.