List of Famous people born on January 1st

Justin Monjo is an American screenwriter, television producer, and actor, best known for his work on Farscape and penning the Farscape movie in 2014.

Simon Franglen is an English composer of classical and film music. He is also an award winning record producer and former musician. His credits include four of the list of top grossing films and six of the list of best-selling albums of all time.

Vincent Aron Cate is a cryptography software developer based in Anguilla. He graduated from the University of California, Berkeley and ran an Atari hardware business in the 1980s before beginning a Ph.D. programme at Carnegie Mellon University, but dropped out and moved to Anguilla to pursue business opportunities there. In his new home, he would go on to establish an internet service provider, a computer club for young students, and an annual cryptography conference. A former U.S. citizen, he gave up that citizenship in 1998 in protest of U.S. laws on the export of cryptography.

Gwendolyn Yates Whittle is a two-time Academy Award-nominated sound editor. She has worked on over 120 films to date. She has won 5 Golden Reel Awards at the Motion Picture Sound Editors. She is a member of Skywalker Sound.