List of Famous people born on January 1st

Rhonda Roland Shearer is an American sculptor, scholar, and journalist, who founded the nonprofit organization Art Science Research Laboratory with her late husband Stephen Jay Gould. The mission statement avows that the lab aims to "infuse intellectual rigor and critical thinking in disciplines that range from Academics to Journalism. ASRL researches conventional beliefs and misinformation and transmits its findings by means of scientific methods and state-of-the-art computer technologies."

Ami Canaan Mann is a British-born American film director, television director and television writer.

Margaretha "Gret" Loewensberg is a Swiss architect and the wife of former Swiss Federal Councillor Moritz Leuenberger.

Max Koffler is a German musician. He has written music for some German movies and released his debut album taboo in May 2008.

Matthew Beynon Rees is a Welsh novelist and journalist. He is the author of The Palestine Quartet, a series of crime novels about Omar Yussef, a Palestinian sleuth, and of historical novels and thrillers. He is the winner of a Crime Writers Association Dagger for his crime fiction in the UK and a finalist for the National Jewish Book Award for fiction in the US. His latest novel is the international thriller China Strike, the second in a series about an agent with US Immigration and Customs Enforcement.

Terence Jay is an American actor and musician. He is best known for his role as Jeremy Van Holden in the 2005 film Green Street, playing alongside Elijah Wood, and for writing and performing several songs on the film's soundtrack, including the one played during the film's final sequence, "One Blood". He also played as Zane in the 2007 supernatural horror film Buried Alive in which he is shown playing the guitar and singing. In 2016 Terence Jay formed the company Nirvana Handpan, a business that fabricates custom steel musical instruments called Handpans. His current work can be seen and heard at www.NirvanaHandpan.com

Lula Carvalho, ASC is a Brazilian cinematographer. His work includes Elite Squad (2007) and Elite Squad: The Enemy Within (2010), RoboCop (2014) and Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles (2014). He is the son of cinematographer Walter Carvalho. As of 2018, Carvalho is a member of the American Society of Cinematographers.