List of Famous people born on January 1st

Finbarr O'Reilly is an independent Irish/Canadian photographer. He was the 2019 Nobel Peace Prize exhibition photographer and is a regular contributor to The New York Times. He won the 2019 World Press Photo First Place prize in the Portraits category, and also won the premier World Press Photo of the Year award of the 49th annual World Press Photo contest in 2006. He has earned numerous other top industry awards from Pictures of the Year International and the National Press Photographers Association. O'Reilly is the co-author with Sgt. Thomas James Brennan of Shooting Ghosts, a joint memoir by a conflict photographer and U.S. Marine whose unlikely friendship helped both heal their war-wounded bodies and souls. O'Reilly has been a Harvard Nieman Fellow (2012-2013), a Yale World Fellow (2015) an Ochberg Fellow at Columbia University's Dart Center for Journalism and Trauma (2014), a MacDowell Colony Fellow (2016), and a writer in residence at the Carey Institute for Global Good (2016).

Fien Troch is a Belgian left field film director, producer and screenwriter.

Martin Gschlacht is an Austrian cinematographer. He received several awards for his work including the European Film Award for Best Cinematographer for Goodnight Mommy (2015) and a Silver Bear for The Devil's Bath (2024)

Stasha Palos is a British artist and author.

Patrick O'Reilly Brown is chief executive and founder of Impossible Foods Inc. and professor emeritus in the department of biochemistry at Stanford University. Brown is co-founder of the Public Library of Science, inventor of the DNA microarray, and a former investigator at Howard Hughes Medical Institute.