List of Famous people born on January 1st

Cyrus S. Poonawalla, also known as the "vaccine king of India", is an Indian Parsi businessman, and the chairman of Poonawalla Group, which includes Serum Institute of India, the Indian biotech company that manufactures paediatric vaccines.

Tavleen Singh is an Indian columnist, political reporter and writer.

Ayano Kudo is a Japanese actress and tarento. In 2009 at the age of 12, she won the 12th National Beauty Pageant. She played the lead role in the movie version of Thriller Restaurant (2010) as Haru Amano.

Phil Gallagher is a British presenter.

Thomas Rush Propst is the football head coach of Valdosta High School in Valdosta, Georgia. He is the former head coach at Colquitt County High School in Moultrie, Georgia and Hoover High School in Hoover, Alabama. Propst gained national notoriety through the MTV series Two-A-Days, which chronicled the 2005 and 2006 seasons of his Hoover team.

Ronald Roe Messner is an American building contractor who has built more than 1,700 churches, including several megachurches.

Paul Raci is an American character actor. A veteran of stage, film and television, he has appeared in a variety of projects, including small roles in Baskets and Parks and Recreation.

Steven Gene Wold, commonly known as Seasick Steve, is an American blues musician. He plays mostly personalized guitars and sings, usually about his early life doing casual work. From the late 1960s, he worked as a musician and recording engineer in the US and Europe, as well as pursuing other work, before his commercial breakthrough, initially in the UK, at the end of 2006. Some sources suggest an earlier birth date.

Sam Childers is a former Outlaws member who now dedicates his life and resources to rescue children in the war zone of South Sudan. Childers and his wife Lynn founded and operate Angels of East Africa, the Children's Village Orphanage in Nimule, South Sudan, where they currently have more than 300 children in their care.

Jack Valentine Woolams (1917–1946) - was the senior experimental test pilot and later chief test pilot at Bell Aircraft during the introduction of the P-39, P-63, P-59, and X-1 aircraft. He set a world record for altitude and was the first person to fly a fighter jet non-stop across the United States.