List of Famous people born on January 1st

Sunny Chan Kam-hung is a Hong Kong television and film actor.

Elisabeth Margaretha Harbers-Bik is a Dutch microbiologist and scientific integrity consultant. Bik is known for her work detecting photo manipulation in scientific publications, and identifying over 400 research papers published in China from a "paper mill" company. Bik is the founder of Microbiome Digest, a blog with daily updates on microbiome research, and the Science Integrity Digest blog.

Hans-Jürgen Kuhl is a German photo businessman who works as a freelance graphic designer and has become internationally known as a counterfeiter.

Joe Pingue is a Canadian actor and film maker.

Yoshihiro Fukagawa is a Japanese film director. His film Into the White Night was screened in the Main Programme of the Panorama section at the 61st Berlin International Film Festival.

Sabika bint Ibrahim Al Khalifa is the first wife of the present King of Bahrain, Hamad bin Isa Al Khalifa, and the mother of the Crown Prince, Salman bin Hamad bin Isa Al Khalifa.

Nancy Carroll is a British actress. She has worked extensively in theatre productions, particularly with the Royal Shakespeare Company. She also has numerous film and television credits, including a long-running feature role as Lady Felicia in the BBC series Father Brown.

Françoise Lépine is a French actress.

Philippe Godeau is a French film producer, director and screenwriter. Godeau worked in distribution at the Gaumont Film Company before founding the production and distribution film company Pan-Européenne.