List of Famous people born on January 1st

Katya Wyeth is a model and actress notable for her roles in several classic horror films of the 1960s and 1970s. Her name sometimes appears as 'Katya Wyath' or 'Kathja Wyeth'. She was frequently typecast in roles requiring an attractive blonde woman.She was married to British actor Michael Bangerter.

Kim Adams is a Canadian sculptor whose assemblages have provided both iconography and media since the 1980s. His visual style is influenced by industrial design, architecture and automotive design. His work incorporates the model railroading technique of kitbashing, and bright stock colours and prefabricated elements are important ingredients in his large-scale sculptures. His small surreal landscapes are reminiscent of Hieronymus Bosch.

Alex Gibson is an American music and sound editor, known for his work on films, Transformers, The Dark Knight Rises, Mad Max: Fury Road, Interstellar, Mission: Impossible – Rogue Nation, Terminator Genisys, Justice League, Dunkirk, for which he won the Academy Award for Best Sound Editing at 90th Academy Awards.

Paul Austerberry is a Canadian production designer of English/Filipino descent. Best known for his work on the 2017 film, The Shape of Water, for which he won an Academy Award and a BAFTA Award for Best Production Design, with set decorators, Shane Vieau and Jeff Melvin.

Yun Guangzhong is a former Chinese politician who spent his entire career in north China's Inner Mongolia. He is of Mongol descent. As of June 2019 he was under investigation by China's top anti-corruption agency. Previously he served as party chief of the capital city Hohhot. Prior to that, he was vice-chairman of the Inner Mongolia between 2014 and 2017, party chief of Ordos City between 2011 and 2014, mayor of Ordos between 2008 and 2011, party chief of Manzhouli between 2006 and 2008, and mayor of Manzhouli between 2004 and 2006.

He Zhaowu was a Chinese historian, translator, and professor at Tsinghua University. He was proficient in English, French and German.

Jason Ballantine is an Australian film editor. He was the president of the Australian Screen Editors guild from 2010 to 2013. He was nominated in the category of Best Editing in the 2005 Australian Film Institute Awards for his work on Wolf Creek. In 2019, we was inducted as a member of the American Cinema Editors.