List of Famous people born on January 1st

Emily St. John Mandel is a Canadian novelist.

Shimit Amin is an Indian film director and editor. He is best known for the award-winning film Chak De! India (2007) starring Shah Rukh Khan. He is married to screenwriter Megha Ramaswamy.

Simon J. Schaffer is a professor of the history and philosophy of science at the Department of History and Philosophy of Science at the University of Cambridge and was editor of The British Journal for the History of Science from 2004 to 2009.

Seeiso, full name Simon Seeiso Griffith was the paramount chief of Basutoland from 23 June 1939 until his death. He is the father of former king Moshoeshoe II of Lesotho and the paternal grandfather of the current king, Letsie III of Lesotho.

Hans-Joachim Queisser is a solid-state physicist. He is best known for co-authoring the 1961 work on solar cells that detailed what is today known as the Shockley–Queisser limit, which is now considered the key contribution in this field.

Sophie Barthes is a French-American film director and screenwriter best known for her 2009 film Cold Souls.

Lluís-Anton Baulenas is a Catalan novelist, translator and playwright.