List of Famous people born on January 1st

Zdeňka Vávrová is a Czech astronomer.

Joseph “Joe” Klotz is an American film editor. He started his career as a television editor in New York City. Klotz' first feature film as editor, Let It Snow, won the Best Editing prize at the 1999 Festival of the American Film Institute. He was nominated for the 2009 Academy Award for Best Film Editing for Precious. Klotz has been selected for membership in the American Cinema Editors.

Tang Yiu is a Hong Kong billionaire businessman, the founder of shoe and sportswear retailer Belle International.

Wang Fuyu is a retired Chinese politician of Hui ethnicity. At the height of his political career, he was chairman of the Guizhou Provincial Committee of the Chinese People's Political Consultative Conference, the province's top political advisory body. Prior to that, he was party chief of Haikou and Sanya in south China's Hainan province. He was investigated by China's top anti-graft agency in February 2021. He was the third leader of provincial-ministerial level to be targeted in 2021, after Li Wenxi, former vice chairman of the Liaoning Provincial Committee of the Chinese People's Political Consultative Conference, and Song Liang, for executive vice governor of Gansu.

Willie C. Carpenter is an American actor. He is perhaps best known for his recurring roles on Reasonable Doubts as Robert Maxwell, 1600 Penn as General Maurer, and Devious Maids as Kenneth Miller.

Philip T. Griffin is an American television executive, who from 2008 to 2021 served as president of MSNBC, a United States cable news channel.