List of Famous people born on January 1st

Sabine Moritz is a German painter and graphic designer. She is married to Gerhard Richter.

David Nutter is an American television and film director and television producer. He is best known for directing pilot episodes for television. In 2015, he received a Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Directing for a Drama Series, for his work on the HBO series Game of Thrones.

Olivier Rey, is a French mathematician and philosopher. He is a specialist of transhumanism.

Jeremy Leonel Sarmiento Morante is a professional footballer who plays as a winger for Brighton & Hove Albion and the Ecuador national team. Born in Spain to Ecuadorian parents, he represented England as a youth international before making his Ecuador debut in October 2021.

Wing Han Tsang, popularly known simply as Wing, is a Hong Kong-born New Zealand singer. Her singing style has drawn comparisons to Florence Foster Jenkins and Mrs. Miller. She is an example of outsider music.

Scarlet Rivera, born Donna Shea, is an American violinist. She is best known for her work with Bob Dylan, in particular on his 1976 album Desire and as part of the Rolling Thunder Revue.

Julia Reichert is an Academy Award-winning American documentary filmmaker and radical feminist.

Johannes Krisch is an Austrian actor. He has appeared in more than forty films since 1987.

Zhenya Gershman is a Russian-born U.S. painter and portraitist. She is known for her "dramatic monumental portraits of iconic public and private figures" and interest in art history.

Michael Houghton is a British scientist and Nobel Prize laureate. Along with Qui-Lim Choo, George Kuo and Daniel W. Bradley, he co-discovered Hepatitis C in 1989. He also co-discovered the Hepatitis D genome in 1986. The discovery of the Hepatitis C virus (HCV) led to the rapid development of diagnostic reagents to detect HCV in blood supplies, which has reduced the risk of acquiring HCV through blood transfusion from one in three to about one in two million. It is estimated that antibody testing has prevented at least 40,000 new infections per year in the US alone and many more worldwide.