List of Famous people born on January 1st

Richard Sammel is a German actor. He is best known for his role as Thomas Eichhorst on the FX television series The Strain (2014–2017).

Andy Gray was a Scottish actor and comedy writer from Perth, Scotland. He trained in drama at Edinburgh's Queen Margaret University 1976–79.

Peter Burling is the 2017 America's Cup champion helmsman, and an Olympic gold and silver medallist.

Chase Joseph McLaughlin is an American football placekicker for the New York Jets of the National Football League (NFL). He played college football at Illinois. After going undrafted in 2019, McLaughlin spent time on five different rosters during the season, three of them as injury replacements.

Scot Rubin is a talk show host, Producer, founder of All Games Productions, All Games Network and co-founder of the G4 television network. AllGames launched in 1996. In 2000 Rubin was hired as a consultant for Comcast to develop a 24-7 cable TV channel about video games. In 2001 he was hired by G4 Media and served as Vice President of Internet, IT and Program Editorial. He developed, produced and hosted G4's interactive talk show for three seasons. Rubin also served as a Producer on the first 3 seasons of the EA Sports Madden Challenge, and play by play guy for the first two Madden Challenge Finals. In 2004, G4 began abandoning its video game format, Rubin left and relaunched All Games Productions, a production company providing consulting and production services to the video game and entertainment industry. Rubin currently serves as the Senior Vice President of Digital Media for Big Door, located in Redondo Beach, California. Rubin is also the founder of NITROPOD, a frozen ice cream company.

Saiful Azam was a Bangladeshi pilot and politician who first served as a fighter pilot for the Pakistan Air Force (PAF) (1960–1971) and later the Bangladesh Air Force (BAF) (1971–1979). During his career as PAF pilot, he shot down one Indian Air Force (IAF) and three Israel Air Force (IAF) aircraft. For his actions, he received various gallantry awards from Pakistan, Jordan and Iraq. He also took part in 12 ground-attack missions against the Indian forces. After the independence of Bangladesh, Azam left the PAF and joined the newly-formed Bangladesh Air Force.

Alexi Jo McCammond is an American political journalist. She served as an NBC and MSNBC contributor a reporter for the political website Axios, and a contributor for PBS's Washington Week. McCammond appeared on 2020's Forbes 30 Under 30 list.

Manu Lanvin is a French blues rock singer-songwriter, guitarist and producer. He's the son of French actor Gérard Lanvin.

Arthur Joseph Jones is an American neo-Nazi and perennial candidate. After running unopposed in the primary election, he was the Republican candidate for Illinois's 3rd congressional district in the November 2018 midterm elections, losing to Democrat Dan Lipinski.

Peter Michael Tuchman is a stock trader on the floor of the New York Stock Exchange (NYSE). He has been called the "most photographed trader on Wall Street".