List of Famous people born on January 1st

Morgan McPherson was the mayor of Key West, Florida. He was elected in 2005 and defeated for reelection in 2009.

Moussa Ould Ebnou is one of Mauritania’s greatest novelists. He has published two novels in French: L’amour impossible (1990) and Le Barzakh (1994), which were later published in Arabic as: الحب المستحيل (1999), and مدينة الرياح (1996). Ebnou has also published two other works in Arabic: حج الفجار (2003), and الامثال والحكم الشعبية الموريتانية al-Imthal w'al-Hakm ash-Sha'biya al-Muritaniya.

Sheikh Mohammad bin Mubarak Al Khalifa is a Bahraini politician and a member of the Bahrain's royal family. He served as Bahrain's Minister of Foreign Affairs from 1969 to 2005, and has been Deputy Prime Minister since then.

Michael Yezerski is an Australian composer known for his scores for feature films such as The Waiting City, The Black Balloon, Newcastle, and Thursday's Fictions, as well as collaborations with the Australian Chamber Orchestra and the Gondwana Voices Children's Choir, the National Museum of Canberra, Synergy Percussion and The Physical TV Company.

Oz Karahan is a Cypriot political activist, columnist and current president of the Union of Cypriots.

Mark Hanlon is an American film director and screenwriter, best known for directing the independent film Buddy Boy. Starring Aidan Gillen and Emmanuelle Seigner, it premiered at the 56th Venice International Film Festival in the Cinema of the Present section. He also wrote the Warner Bros. horror film Ghost Ship, starring Julianna Margulies and Gabriel Byrne.