List of Famous people who are 79

Michael Cormac Newell is an English director and producer of motion pictures for film and television. Newell is best known for directing the films Four Weddings and a Funeral, Donnie Brasco, and Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire. He won the BAFTA Award for Best Direction for Four Weddings and a Funeral.

Patrick M. Hughes is a retired United States Army officer who served as the 12th Director of the Defense Intelligence Agency (DIA). Previously, he was Director of Intelligence for the US Joint Chiefs of Staff from 1994 to 1996 and the Director of Intelligence at United States Central Command from 1992–1994. He was the Commanding General, United States Army Intelligence Agency, and the Assistant Deputy Chief of Staff for Intelligence, U.S. Army from 1990 until 1992. He joined the United States Department of Homeland Security in 2003 as the Assistant Secretary for Information Analysis (Intelligence), and departed from DHS and Government service in March 2005.

Rudolf Lucieer is a Dutch actor. He has appeared in 36 films and television shows since 1966. He starred in the 1967 film Paranoia, which was entered into the 17th Berlin International Film Festival. In 1992 he won the Golden Calf for Best Actor for his role in the movie The Northerners.

Alfred (Al) Sommer is a prominent American ophthalmologist and epidemiologist at the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health. His research on vitamin A in the 1970s and 1980s revealed that dosing even mildly vitamin A deficient children with an inexpensive, large dose vitamin A capsule twice a year reduces child mortality by as much as 34 percent. The World Bank and the Copenhagen Consensus list vitamin A supplementation as one of the most cost-effective health interventions in the world.

Dr. Jabbar Patel is a Marathi-language theatre and film director of India. His production of the play Vijay Tendulkar's play Ghashiram Kotwal, in 1973 is considered a classic in Modern Indian Theatre.

Jacques, Baron Brotchi is a Belgian professor of neurosurgery and a politician from the MR. He was elected as a member of the Belgian Senate in 2004. From December 2018 to July 2019, he was President of the Senate of Belgium.