List of Famous people born on January 1st
James Cottriall
James Cottriall is an English musician, active predominantly in Austria and partly living in Los Angeles, California. He became famous throughout Austria with the success of his first single, "Unbreakable", which spent twenty weeks in the Austrian top 40 charts in summer 2010. "Unbreakable" was nominated for the Song of the Year category at the 2010 Austrian music Amadeus Awards.
Lexi Randall
Lexi Randall is a former child actor in films and television. She appeared in the film The Long Walk Home and The War with Kevin Costner and Elijah Wood. Randall starred in the three television movies made from the novel Sarah, Plain and Tall. She also was in In the Best Interest of the Children and was a recurring character in the television series Designing Women.
Country Joe McDonald
Joseph Allen "Country Joe" McDonald is an American musician who was the lead singer of the 1960s psychedelic rock group Country Joe and the Fish.
Demir Sabancı
Demir Sabanci is a Turkish entrepreneur, venture capitalist, and philanthropist. He is the chairman of Sedes Holding and its subsidiaries. His businesses range from the largest personal care market chain in Turkey, to real estate management and development in New York City.
Marcelo Barticciotto
Marcelo Pablo Barticciotto Cicaré is an Argentine-born Chilean former footballer and manager.
Tsukasa Fushimi
Tsukasa Fushimi is a Japanese author of light novels. He made his debut in 2006 with the novel series Jūsanbanme no Alice. This was followed in 2008 by his well-known novel series Oreimo, which spawned a media franchise encompassing multiple manga, anime, and video game adaptations. In 2013, Fushimi began writing his novel series Eromanga Sensei.
Huma Bhabha
Huma Bhabha is a Pakistani-American sculptor based in Poughkeepsie, New York. Known for her uniquely grotesque, figurative forms that often appear dissected or dismembered, Bhabha often uses found materials in her sculptures, including styrofoam, cork, rubber, paper, wire, and clay. She occasionally incorporates objects given to her by other people into her artwork. Many of these sculptures are also cast in bronze. She is equally prolific in her works on paper, creating vivid pastel drawings, eerie photographic collages, and haunting print editions.
Paz Esteban López
Paz Esteban López is a Spanish intelligence officer serving as Director of the National Intelligence Centre (CNI) since 2020. She is the first woman to hold the post and was previously the Secretary-General of the agency from 2017 to 2019, under Félix Sanz Roldán.
Mohammad Rasoulof
Mohammad Rasoulof is an Iranian independent filmmaker. He studied sociology in Tehran. Currently he lives in Tehran and in Hamburg.
Yi Gang
Yi Gang is the Governor of the People's Bank of China since 2018. He is also the former Director of the State Administration of Foreign Exchange.