List of Famous people born on January 1st

John P. McCann is an American-born writer, actor and producer who has mostly focused on writing/producing animation and family-friendly scripts in the past. He is best known for his work on television cartoons, for which he has received numerous awards, but he has also produced live-action screenplays and television scripts. At present McCann is also working on short stories, and a novella. His fiction tends to be either darkly humorous or horror-related.

Cheryl Heuton is an American television writer and producer. Along with her husband and writing partner Nicolas Falacci, she co-created the television series Numb3rs (2005–2010). The couple created the show, a mathematics-centered departure from standard-fare Hollywood programming, to combat anti-intellectualism. Falacci and Heuton were awarded the Carl Sagan Award for Public Understanding of Science in 2005 and, with Numb3rs, the National Science Board's Public Service Award in 2007. Heuton and Falacci also co-wrote the TV movie The Arrangement (2013), an adaptation of Elmore Leonard’s story “When the Women Come Out to Dance.”

Deirdre Quinn is an American model and actress, known for her role as Miss Texas in the 2000 film Miss Congeniality.

Isagi Osumi is a Japanese former swimmer. He competed in the men's 200 metre backstroke at the 1964 Summer Olympics. He later became a reporter for the Sports Nippon newspaper, eventually rising to become a member of the board of directors. He also did sports commentary on television.

Stuart Feldman is the creator of the computer software program make for UNIX systems. He was also an author of the first Fortran 77 compiler, and he was part of the original group at Bell Labs that created the Unix operating system.

Byram Dinshawji Avari is a Pakistani businessman and twice Asian Games gold medalist.

Thomas Strüngmann founded generic drug maker Hexal AG in 1986. In 2005, he and his brother Andreas sold Hexal for $6.7B. They earned $8B on their stake in BioNTech SE, the German company developing the Pfizer vaccine. They own approximately 50% of the company as well as significant ownership in 4SC and Immatics. He currently has the largest health-care earned fortune with his brother.

Brad Krevoy is a film producer, entrepreneur, and the founder and Chairman/CEO of the Motion Picture Corporation of America (MPCA). In a career spanning over 30 years, Krevoy has been directly involved in the development, finance, production, acquisition, and distribution of more than 150 motion picture and television projects, most famously the 1994 blockbuster comedy Dumb and Dumber. Lately, he has become known as one of the producers of Christmas themed entertainment, having produced many successful holiday movies, including Netflix’s A Christmas Prince trilogy, and The Princess Switch.