List of Famous people born on January 1st

Andrew Douglas Brownsword CBE DL is an English entrepreneur who established the Forever Friends company. He has regularly featured on the Sunday Times Rich List, with an estimated fortune of £190 million.

Andreas Strüngmann is a German businessman and founded generic drug maker Hexal AG in 1986. It became Germany's second-largest generic drug producer. In February 2005, he and his brother Thomas sold Hexal and their 67.7% of U.S. Eon Labs to Novartis for $7.5 billion, making Sandoz the largest generic-drug company in the world.

Kurt Johnstad is an American screenwriter. He has worked on several films including 300, for which he was nominated for a Saturn Award, along with Michael Gordon and Zack Snyder. He also wrote the screenplays for Act of Valor, 300: Rise of an Empire and Atomic Blonde, and was tapped to write one of two competing screenplays for Aquaman; Will Beall's script was eventually chosen for the film.

Anna Lise Phillips is an Australian actress. She is sometimes credited as Anna Lise, Anna Lise Philips, or Anna-Lise Phillips.