List of Famous people born on January 1st

Dirk Skreber, is a contemporary artist who lives and works in New York City. He studied at the Kunstakademie Düsseldorf.

Christopher Boyes is an American sound engineer. He has won four Academy Awards and has been nominated for another ten. He has worked on more than 70 films since 1991.

David Elieser Deutsch is a British physicist at the University of Oxford. He is a Visiting Professor in the Department of Atomic and Laser Physics at the Centre for Quantum Computation (CQC) in the Clarendon Laboratory of the University of Oxford. He pioneered the field of quantum computation by formulating a description for a quantum Turing machine, as well as specifying an algorithm designed to run on a quantum computer. He has also proposed the use of entangled states and Bell's theorem for quantum key distribution and is a proponent of the many-worlds interpretation of quantum mechanics.

Hilda Múdra, née Hildegard Klimpel is an Austrian-born Slovak figure skating coach. Her most notable student was Ondrej Nepela, the 1972 Olympic champion.

Klaus Biesenbach, born in Bergisch Gladbach, West Germany, is the director of The Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles (MOCA), and former director of MoMA PS1 and Chief Curator at Large at The Museum of Modern Art in New York City. He is also the founding director of Kunst-Werke (KW) Institute for Contemporary Art in Berlin and Berlin Biennale.