List of Famous people born on January 1st

Said bin Zair is a Saudi former academic who has opposed the royal family and class-based regime of Saudi Arabia.

Salvador Güereña is an archivist, curator, and writer. Güereña specializes in ethnic and multicultural archives, and in digital technologies involving Chicano/Latino arts. Since 1989 he has been Director of the California Ethnic and Multicultural Archives in the University of California, Santa Barbara Davidson Library. He is a published author and editor, including several books and numerous articles in the field of library science, bibliography, and archival science. He was editor and co-author of Library Services to Latinos: an Anthology (2000), and is co-editor and co-author of the forthcoming Pathways to Progress: Issues and Advances in Latino Librarianship (2009).

Sami Angawi is an architect in the Hejaz region of Saudi Arabia. He studied architecture in the United Kingdom and the United States.

Samson Kambalu is a Malawi-born artist, academic and author who trained as a fine artist and ethnomusicologist at the University of Malawi's Chancellor College. He is a Fellow of Magdalen College, Oxford.

Robert Castaigne is the chief financial officer of Total S.A.. He has held the position since 1990. He is a graduate engineer from École centrale de Lille, with further specialization at École nationale supérieure du pétrole et des moteurs. He also holds a Doctorate in economics.

Scott Cohen is the co-founder of digital distribution company The Orchard, which was founded on the Lower East Side of Manhattan in 1997 and is now owned by Sony Music. The Orchard was the first digital distributor of music.

Dai Satō is a Japanese screenwriter and musician.

Sepandar David Kamvar, also known as Sep Kamvar, is a computer scientist, artist, author and entrepreneur. He is a cofounder of Mosaic, an AI-powered construction company, Celo, a cryptocurrency protocol, and Wildflower Schools, a decentralized network of Montessori microschools. He was previously a Professor of Media Arts and Sciences and LG Career Development Chair at MIT, and director of the Social Computing group at the MIT Media Lab. He left MIT in 2016.