List of Famous people who are 79

Peter Mafany Musonge is a Cameroonian politician who was Prime Minister of Cameroon from September 19, 1996 to December 8, 2004.

John 'Jack' Connor is a British theoretical physicist whose research focussed on understanding the physics of nuclear fusion.

Francis Xavier McCarthy is an American actor who has appeared in films such as Interstellar (2014) and Deep Impact (1998).

Suravaram Sudhakar Reddy is the former General Secretary of the Communist Party of India (CPI) from 2012 to 2019. He was a member of the 12th and 14th Lok Sabha of India. He represented the Nalgonda constituency of Telangana.

Sir Michael Pepper, FRS, FREng is a British physicist notable for his work in semiconductor nanostructures.

Michel Della Negra, born 1942, is a French experimental particle physicist known for his role in the 2012 discovery of the Higgs Boson.

Burn-Jeng Lin is a Taiwanese engineer.

Paul Hinder, O.F.M. Cap. is a Catholic bishop. He is the Vicar Apostolic in the Apostolic Vicariate of Southern Arabia. On 13 May 2020, Bishop Hinder was also appointed Apostolic Administrator of the Vicariate Apostolic of Northern Arabia. Bishop Hinder was previously appointed as an Auxiliary Bishop in the former Vicariate Apostolic of Arabia on 30 January 2004.

Oscar James is a Trinidadian actor, who is based in the United Kingdom. He has had a long and varied career, but is best known for appearing on British television, in particular the BBC soap opera EastEnders, where he played original character Tony Carpenter for over two years. James resides in north London.