List of Famous people born on January 1st

Christine Sommer is an Austrian actress.

Jonathan Malangu Kuminga is a Congolese professional basketball player for the Golden State Warriors of the National Basketball Association (NBA). Listed at 6 feet 8 inches (2.03 m) and 210 pounds (95 kg), he plays the small forward and power forward positions. A consensus five-star recruit and the top small forward in the 2021 class, he chose to forgo his college eligibility and reclassify to the 2020 class to join the Ignite. Kuminga finished his high school career at The Patrick School in Hillside, New Jersey. He was selected by the Golden State Warriors with the 7th pick in the 2021 NBA Draft.

Tom Brooke is an English actor. He is best known for playing the roles of Thick Kevin in The Boat That Rocked (2009), Bill Wiggins and Andy Apsted in the BBC One television series Sherlock and Bodyguard respectively, and Fiore in the AMC television series Preacher.

Joachim Philipp Maria Meyerhoff is a German actor, director, and writer.

John Michael Kay is a British journalist who worked for The Sun newspaper for several decades.

Antoine DeRay Davis is an American stand-up comedian and actor. He is the older brother of R&B singer Steph Jones.

Antonio Leyza Sanchez is a Filipino former politician who served as mayor of Calauan, Laguna from 1988 to 1993. He is the convicted mastermind in the murders of Eileen Sarmenta and Allan Gomez, both students of the University of the Philippines, Los Baños (UPLB), in 1993.

Jerwin Juntilla Ancajas is a Filipino professional boxer. He has held the IBF junior-bantamweight title since 2016. As of January 2021, he is ranked as the world’s fourth-best junior-bantamweight by The Ring magazine and the Transnational Boxing Rankings Board and fifth by BoxRec.

Crystal R. Fox is an American actress and singer. Fox performed in many stage productions during her career, and best known for her television roles as Luann Corbin in the NBC/CBS police drama series In the Heat of the Night (1989-1995), and as Hanna Young in the Oprah Winfrey Network prime time soap opera, The Haves and the Have Nots (2013–present). Fox also has appeared in a number of films, most notable playing the leading role in the 2020 thriller A Fall from Grace.

Abdul Samad is an Indian cricketer who plays for Jammu & Kashmir in domestic cricket and for Sunrisers Hyderabad in the Indian Premier League (IPL). He is a right-handed batsman and right-arm leg-break bowler.