List of Famous people born on January 1st

Jack Stephens was a set decorator. He won an Academy Award and was nominated for another in the category Best Art Direction.

Ichiro Kawachi is a social epidemiologist of Japanese origin who was trained in New Zealand. He is currently the John L. Loeb and Frances Lehman Loeb Professor at Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health where he is also the chair of the Department of Social and Behavioral Sciences. With S.V. Subramanian, he is the co-editor-in-chief of Social Science & Medicine. In 2018, Kawachi was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society of New Zealand.

John Richard Bond, also known as J. Richard Bond, is a Canadian astrophysicist and cosmologist.

Mustafa al-Siba'i was a Syrian politician and activist. He was dean of the Faculty of Islamic Jurisprudence and the School of Law at the University of Damascus. From 1945 to 1961 he was the leader of the Islamic Socialist Front, the Syrian branch of the Muslim Brotherhood.