List of Famous people born on January 1st

Clotilde Mollet is a French actress.

Billy Pontoni, or Guillermo García, joined the Pedro Morales Pino conservatory in his hometown Cartago, Colombia as a child. Then he became one of the artists from the Youths Club in Radio Cartago, in which he made his first appearances as a singer. In 1966 he arrived to Bogotá searching for an opportunity. There he became a regular performer at the Club del Clan TV Show, where his name was changed to Billy. At 14 he signed a contract with the Grill El Caracol Rojo as lead vocalist.

Beatrice Munyenyezi is a Rwandan woman known for her involvement in the Rwandan Genocide. She fled to the United States where she successfully applied for political asylum citing persecution in her home country. In 2013, a US court found that she had lied about her involvement. She was stripped of her American citizenship and was given a ten-year sentence.

Ip Kin-yuen is a former member of the Legislative Council of Hong Kong for Education constituency and a chief executive for Hong Kong Professional Teachers' Union.

MC Bogy, born Moritz Christopher, also known by the pseudonym Der Atzenkeeper, is a German rapper and co-founder of the Berlin street gang Berlin Crime.

Eliza Joenck Martins is a Brazilian model and actress.

Pola Oloixarac is an Argentinian writer, journalist, and translator.

Judy Clare Clarke is an American criminal defense attorney who has represented several high-profile defendants such as Ted Kaczynski, Eric Rudolph, Dzhokhar Tsarnaev, Zacarias Moussaoui, Jared Lee Loughner, Robert Gregory Bowers, and Susan Smith.

Kwok Wai-kin is a Hong Kong judge. He has sparked controversies over his political remarks on his hearings.

Serdar Özkan is a Turkish professional footballer who plays as a winger for Bursaspor.