List of Famous people born on January 1st

Claire Pichet is a French soloist singer.

Liz Friedlander is an American music video and television director and television producer.

Peter Rees is a film and television writer, director, and producer. He created and developed the concept and was the executive producer of the television series MythBusters. Rees won the 1993 Charles Heidsieck International Travel Challenge, and with his race partner, Peter Coleman, wrote and directed a documentary about the event, In the Footsteps of Champagne Charlie.

Scott Squires is a visual effects supervisor and director. His first film project was Close Encounters of the Third Kind, where he developed the Cloud Tank Effect. In 1979 Squires, Hoyt Yeatman, Rocco Gioffre, Fred Iguchi, Tom Hollister and Bob Hollister co-founded Dream Quest Images, a visual effects house, which was later purchased by Disney. Squires was president of Dream Quest and left in 1985 to work for Industrial Light and Magic. Squires worked as visual effects supervisor and commercial director at ILM for 20 years and is now a freelance director and visual effects supervisor.

Sim Wong Hoo is a Singaporean inventor and billionaire entrepreneur. He is the founder, CEO and Chairman of Creative Technology, a designer and manufacturer of products for personal computers and personal digital entertainment devices. Creative is notable for products such as the Sound Blaster audio card and the Creative ZEN range of audio and media products.

Karen Gaviola is an American television producer and director. She is the winner of the 2007 NAACP Image Award for directing "The Whole Truth" episode of the ABC hit series Lost. She was also nominated for the 2013 WIN Award for best directing of the "Georgia on My Mind" episode of the Shonda Rhimes series Private Practice. Ms.Gaviola has directed over 125 TV episodes, including the shows Lucifer, Empire, Sons of Anarchy, The Blacklist, Magnum P.I., CSI: Crime Scene Investigation, Grimm, Criminal Minds and Chicago Fire.