List of Famous people born on January 1st

Suzanne Shepherd is an American actress and theater director.

Cosmo George Leipoldt Pieterse is a South African playwright, actor, poet, literary critic and anthologist.

Mohan Kumar Vivekanand, also known as Cyanide Mohan, is a serial killer who preyed on women looking for marriage. A Mangalore fast track court tried and convicted him for the murder of 20 women.

Gary S. Scott is an American film composer who has contributed music to over forty movies, TV shows, and television movies, beginning with the 1981 horror movie Final Exam. He has also worked a record producer, an arranger, musical director, and conductor. He has received five BMI Cable Awards for his work on The Suite Life of Zack & Cody, The Suite Life on Deck, and Beverly Hills 90210.

Dale M. Pollock is an American film producer, writer and film professor. A journalist whose works have been published in a number of magazines and newspapers, Pollock is also the author of a biography of George Lucas. Pollock has produced thirteen feature films, one of which (Blaze) received an Academy Award nomination for Cinematography. As of 2010, he is a professor of Cinema Studies at the University of North Carolina School of the Arts.

Daniel Och is an American billionaire investor, hedge fund manager, and philanthropist. He is the founder, chairman and former CEO of Och-Ziff Capital Management, a global hedge fund and alternative asset management firm.