List of Famous people born on January 1st

Bernd Bergmair is an Austrian businessman. He is one of the majority owners of privately held MindGeek, the Luxembourg-based conglomerate behind popular porn sites such as Pornhub. Although he is not mentioned in the company's corporate filings, a report by the Financial Times revealed that Bergemar is MindGeek's largest beneficiary thanks to a "complex network of subsidiaries" in which he owns a large percentage of the shares.

Rémy Card is a French software developer who is credited as one of the primary developers of the Extended file system (ext) and Second Extended file system (ext2) for Linux.

Chanique Rabe is a Namibian model, fashion designer, and beauty pageant titleholder who was crowned Miss Supranational 2021. Rabe was previously crowned Miss Teen Continents 2015 and Miss Supranational Namibia 2020, making her the first representative from Namibia to win the Miss Supranational title, the first African country to do so.

Pierre Berthelot is a mathematician at the University of Rennes. He developed crystalline cohomology and rigid cohomology.

Sangob Rattanusorn is a former badminton player from Thailand who won numerous titles and represented his country in team play from the early 1960s through the early 1970s.

Jon Astley is a British record producer who has also recorded and released two albums as a singer-songwriter in the late 1980s. His most commercially successful song was "Jane's Getting Serious", later popularized by a Heinz ketchup television commercial starring a pre-Friends Matt LeBlanc.

George Kamau Muhoho is a former Director General of the Kenya Airports Authority (KAA).