List of Famous people born on January 1st

Andrew Parker is a zoologist who has worked on Biomimetics. He worked at the Natural History Museum in London, and from 1990 to 1999 he was a Royal Society University Research Fellow and is a Research Associate of the Australian Museum and University of Sydney and from 1999 until 2005 he worked at the University of Oxford. As of 2018 Parker is a Visiting Research Fellow at Green Templeton College where he is head of a Research Team into photonic structures and eyes.

Alan Fine is an American chief executive.

Aida el Ayoubi is an Egyptian singer, songwriter, and guitarist.

Agnete Friis is a Danish writer who is best known for co-authoring Drengen i kufferten, or The Boy in the Suitcase with Lene Kaaberbøl. The book was short-listed for the Scandinavian Glass Key Award, competing against The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo and received the 2008 Harald Mogensen award for best crime novel.

Agustinus Adisutjipto, posthumously promoted as Air vice-marshal was born in Salatiga, Central Java on 3 July 1916 and raised Roman Catholic. He was killed in action in Bantul, Yogyakarta on 29 July 1947. He was an air commodore and an Indonesian national hero.

Ahmed Ismail Samatar is a Somali writer, professor and former dean of the Institute for Global Citizenship at Macalester College. He is the editor of Bildhaan: An International Journal of Somali Studies, and brother of Abdi Ismail Samatar, chair of the geography department at the University of Minnesota. Samatar joined the Peace, Unity, and Development Party, the ruling party of the self-declared Republic of Somaliland in June 2016. Samatar is being widely touted as a possible candidate for Somaliland's 2022 presidential elections.

Ahmed Majdalani is a Palestinian politician, university professor and researcher. A former Palestinian government minister, he currently serves as Secretary-General of the Palestinian Popular Struggle Front (PPSF) and is a senior member of the PLO Executive Committee which is considered the highest political level in Palestine

Steve Segal is an American animator and filmmaker known for his independent animated shorts as well as his contribution to Pixar films like Toy Story. He teaches animation at the California College of the Arts and has also been a professor in the animation department at Academy of Art University, San Francisco, California.

Alan Schechter is a political scientist. He is Professor Emeritus of Political Science at Wellesley College in Massachusetts.