List of Famous people born on January 1st

Brian Fee is an American storyboard artist, animator, prop designer, producer, film director and occasional voice actor who works for Pixar.

Richard Bluff is an English visual effects supervisor. Known for his works in Disney's visual effects company Industrial Light & Magic (ILM) as a digital matte artist and visual effects supervisor in acclaimed films such as Star Wars: Episode III - Revenge of the Sith (2005), The Island (2005), Transformers (2007-11), Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull (2008), Star Trek (2009), Avatar (2009), The Avengers (2012), Cloud Atlas (2012) Pacific Rim (2013), The Big Short (2015) and Doctor Strange (2016), for which he received an Academy Award for Best Visual Effects nomination at the 89th Academy Awards. He previously worked at Blur Studio as digital artist.

Shafiq Syed is a former Indian child actor turned auto rickshaw driver. At the age of twelve, he played the lead role in Mira Nair's Academy Award-nominated film Salaam Bombay! (1988), for which he also received the 1989 National Film Award for Best Child Artist at the 36th National Film Awards. As an adult, he drives an auto rickshaw in Bangalore and also works as an assistant in television production units.

Xia Heng or Henry Xia is a Chinese entrepreneur. He co-founded the Chinese plug-in gas-electric hybrid car company XPeng Motors.