List of Famous people born on January 1st

Vera Brandes is a German music producer and researcher in music and media effects.

Kim Man-il was the second son and child of North Korean leader Kim Il-sung and his first wife, Kim Jong-suk.

Lou Ye, born 1965, is a Chinese screenwriter-director who is commonly grouped with the "Sixth Generation" directors of Chinese cinema.

Yumi Tamura is a Japanese manga artist. Her debut short story, Ore-tachi no Zettai Jikan, was published in 1983 in Bessatsu Shōjo Comic and received the 1983 Shogakukan Grand Prize for new artists. Since then, she has completed more than 50 compiled volumes of short stories and continuing series. Popular works such as Tomoe ga Yuku! exemplify her work, but she made her reputation with the long-running shōjo action/adventure series Basara, for which she won the 1993 Shogakukan Manga Award for shōjo manga. Her latest series, 7 Seeds, for which she won a second Shogakukan Manga Award for shōjo manga in 2003, is currently running in the anthology magazine Flowers in Japan. Chicago was her first series to be published in North America.

Angelika Unterlauf is a German television journalist. As the spokeswoman of the main GDR television news programme, the Aktuelle Kamera, she was regarded as the "face of the GDR" until the German reunification.

Shigeo Maruyama is a Japanese businessman. He is best known for being the founder of Epic/Sony Records, former chairman of Sony Computer Entertainment and former CEO of Sony Music Entertainment. He is known for discovering artists such as Motoharu Sano and Tetsuya Komuro.

Frederico Marques Cunha is a Brazilian Catholic priest and fugitive, convicted of murdering a teenager in Portugal, as well as sexually abusing numerous children and adolescents. He escaped trial in 1998, and has been living as a free man in his native country ever since.

Yvonne Brulatour Sciò is an Italian model and actress.

Tomás Moreno Romero, better known as Tomasito, is a Spanish flamencodancer, singer and rapper born in Jerez de la Frontera, Spain, in 1969. His music style is a very personal mixture of flamenco, pop, rock, hip hop, funky, and other rhythms. He is the song of Bastiana, also flamencodancer.

Chai Jing is a Chinese journalist, former television host, author and environmental activist.