List of Famous people born on January 1st

Hur Young-in is a South Korean entrepreneur and chairman of SPC Group, which owns brands such as SPC Samlip, Paris Croissant, Paris Baguette, Baskin-Robbins and Dunkin' Donuts operations in South Korea.

Alexandre Julliard is a computer programmer who is best known as the project leader for Wine, a compatibility layer to run Microsoft Windows programs on Unix-like operating systems.

Michael J. Stemmle is a computer game writer, designer, and director who cocreated some of LucasArts' adventure games in the 1990s and early 2000s.

Naomi Shohan is an American production designer. Her work can be seen in such films as American Beauty, I Am Legend, Constantine, and A Wrinkle in Time. She studied for a time at the California Institute of the Arts before dropping out, and later studied philosophy at the University at Stony Brook. She became a production designer by working on films made by a former boyfriend.

Nick Moore is a film director and editor. He directed the 2011 British Movie Horrid Henry: The Movie. He directed the 2008 Wild Child, and other previous work included editing the 1997 The Full Monty for which he was nominated for a BAFTA award, the 1999 hit Notting Hill, the 2002 About a Boy for which he was nominated for the American Cinema Editors Award for Best Edited Feature Film – Comedy or Musical, and the 2003 Love Actually.

Minoru Kizawa is a Japanese astronomer and discoverer of minor planets.

Philip Suriano is an American actor, best known for playing Dominic Santoro in Martin Scorsese's 1995 film Casino, based on real-life mobster Michael Spilotro. Another small but notable appearance by Suriano was in 1989's Lethal Weapon 2.