List of Famous people who are 78

Mohammed Ziane is a Moroccan politician and lawyer. He's has served as the National Coordinator of the Moroccan Liberal Party, a political formation he founded in 2002. He was previously an MP for the Constitutional Party in the 1980s but left that party in 1995. Ziane was briefly Minister-delegate of human rights in 1996, where he was the first and only Moroccan government to resign during his tenure.

Alexander Yevgenyevich Gavrilov is a Russian pair skater who competed internationally for the Soviet Union. With partner Tatiana Zhuk, he is the World bronze medalist and the 1963 & 1964 European bronze medalist. They placed 5th at the 1964 Winter Olympics. He also competed one season with Tamara Moskvina, winning the 1965 Soviet Championships.

Helmut Haussmann is a German academic and politician. He served as minister of economy from 1988 to 1991.

Axel Ullrich is a German cancer researcher and has been the director of the molecular biology department at the Max Planck Institute of Biochemistry in Martinsried, Germany since 1988. This department's research has primarily focused on signal transduction. Ullrich has received Hamdan Award for Medical Research Excellence, awarded by Sheikh Hamdan bin Rashid Al Maktoum Award for Medical Sciences, Dubai, United Arab Emirates in 2008 and Ullrich and his team received the Wolf Prize in 2010.

Jeff Cheeger is a mathematician. Cheeger is professor at the Courant Institute of Mathematical Sciences at New York University in New York City. His main interests are differential geometry and its connections with topology and analysis.

Crescenzio Sepe is an Italian prelate of the Catholic Church who has been Archbishop of Naples since 2006. He served in the Roman Curia as Prefect of the Congregation for the Evangelization of Peoples from 2001 to 2006. He was made a cardinal in 2001. Before that he spent 25 years in increasingly important positions in the Roman Curia.

Margaretha "Gret" Loewensberg is a Swiss architect and the wife of former Swiss Federal Councillor Moritz Leuenberger.

Thomas John Sargent is an American economist and the W.R. Berkley Professor of Economics and Business at New York University. He specializes in the fields of macroeconomics, monetary economics, and time series econometrics. As of 2020, he ranks as the 29th most cited economist in the world. He was awarded the Nobel Memorial Prize in Economics in 2011 together with Christopher A. Sims for their "empirical research on cause and effect in the macroeconomy".