List of Famous people who are 78

Barry Manilow is an American singer-songwriter, arranger, musician, producer and actor, with a career that has spanned more than 50 years. His hit recordings include "Could It Be Magic", "Mandy", "I Write the Songs", "Can't Smile Without You" and "Copacabana ".

Tom Astor is a German singer and composer. He is noted for his extensive country and western recordings. He has worked with Johnny Cash, Kris Kristofferson, Dolly Parton, Kenny Rogers, John Denver, The Bellamy Brothers, Willie Nelson, Billy Ray Cyrus, George Jones, Wanda Jackson and Charlie McCoy among others.

Klaus Maria Brandauer is an Austrian actor and director. He is also a professor at the Max Reinhardt Seminar.

John Vivian Drummond Nettles, OBE, is a British actor and writer. He is best known for his starring roles as detectives in the crime drama television series Bergerac (1981–1991) and Midsomer Murders (1997–2011). He has also narrated several television series.

Danièle Gilbert is a French television presenter.

Ratko Mladić is a Bosnian Serb colonel-general and convicted war criminal who led the Army of Republika Srpska (VRS) during the Yugoslav Wars. In 2017 he was found guilty of committing war crimes, crimes against humanity, and genocide by the International Criminal Tribunal for the former Yugoslavia (ICTY).

Louise Elisabeth Glück is an American poet and essayist. She won the 2020 Nobel Prize in Literature, whose judges praised "her unmistakable poetic voice that with austere beauty makes individual existence universal". Her other awards include the Pulitzer Prize, National Humanities Medal, National Book Award, National Book Critics Circle Award, and Bollingen Prize. From 2003 to 2004, she was Poet Laureate of the United States.

Malcolm McDowell is an English actor. Born in the Horsforth suburb of Leeds and raised in Liverpool, he later trained at the London Academy of Music and Dramatic Art before embarking on a career that has spanned over 50 years.

Gaby Dohm is a German actress. She is the daughter of actor Will Dohm and actress Heli Finkenzeller.

Peter J. Nygård is a Finnish-Canadian former fashion executive. He founded Nygård International, a company that made women's apparel, in 1967. He resigned as chairman in February 2020 after FBI raided company headquarters in its investigation of sex trafficking accusations against him by multiple women. Nygård was arrested on sex trafficking and racketeering charges in December of the same year.