List of Famous people born on January 1st

Günther Groissböck is an Austrian operatic bass. Anthony Tommasini, chief classical music critic for The New York Times, described Groissböck's "imposing and good-looking" portrayal of Baron Ochs in Der Rosenkavalier at the Metropolitan Opera, New York, as "a revelation". James Jorden of the New York Observer praised Groissböck's "innovative take" on the role and his "big, virile sound". A 2018 recording of the Met performance was nominated for Grammy Award in the Best Opera Recording.

Eustace Robinson Conway IV is an American naturalist and the subject of the book The Last American Man by Elizabeth Gilbert. He has also been the subject of Adventures in the Simple Life by Sarah Vowell on the weekly radio show This American Life with Ira Glass. He is the owner of the 1,000-acre (4.0 km²) Turtle Island Preserve in Boone, North Carolina. He is one of the featured personalities on the History channel show Mountain Men.

Vuslat Doğan Sabancı is the second daughter of Turkish media proprietor Aydın Doğan and was the Chairwoman of Hürriyet, the most influential daily newspaper in Turkey.

Davide Esposito is a singer and songwriter.

Akiyoshi Katsuno is a professional Japanese baseball player. He plays pitcher for the Chunichi Dragons.

Natascha Hiltrop is a German Paralympic sport shooter. She represented Germany at the Summer Paralympics in 2012, 2016 and 2021. She won the gold medal in the mixed 10 metre air rifle prone SH1 event at the 2020 Summer Paralympics held in Tokyo, Japan. She also won the silver medal in the mixed 10 metre air rifle prone SH1 event in 2016.

Yoshihiro Tatsuki is a Japanese photographer.

Steve Blame is a British television presenter and screenwriter. He was the news editor and presenter between 1987 and 1994 for the television channel MTV.

Noriko H. Arai is a Japanese researcher in mathematical logic and artificial intelligence, known for her work on a project to develop robots that can pass the entrance examinations for the University of Tokyo. She is a professor in the information and society research division of the National Institute of Informatics.

Clarissa Stadler is an Austrian journalist, moderator and writer.