List of Famous people who are 78

Roberto Faenza is an Italian film director. Born in Turin in 1943, Faenza received a degree in Political Science and a diploma at the Centro Sperimentale di Cinematografia.

Rabbi Shlomo Chaim Hacohen Aviner is an Israeli Orthodox rabbi, born in France. He is the rosh yeshiva of the Ateret Yerushalayim yeshiva in Jerusalem, and the rabbi of the Israeli settlement Bet El. He is considered one of the spiritual leaders of the Religious Zionist movement.

Richard Streit Hamilton is Davies Professor of Mathematics at Columbia University. He is known for contributions to geometric analysis and partial differential equations. He made foundational contributions to the theory of the Ricci flow and its use in the resolution of the Poincaré conjecture and geometrization conjecture in the field of geometric topology.

Annamaria Cancellieri is the former Italian minister of Interior and the former justice minister.

Allan Mieczysław Starski is a Polish Oscar-winning production designer and set decorator.