List of Famous people who are 79
Andrew King
Andrew King is a music manager, formerly for Blackhill Enterprises, where he co-managed Pink Floyd and others.
Wolf-Dieter Tränkner
Takumi Yokomori
Karin Brasin
Roger Mills
Roger J Mills is a former English international badminton player and coach.
Manfred Großer
Michael
Deirdre McCloskey
Deirdre Nansen McCloskey is the Distinguished Professor of Economics, History, English, and Communication at the University of Illinois at Chicago (UIC). She is also adjunct professor of Philosophy and Classics there, and for five years was a visiting Professor of philosophy at Erasmus University, Rotterdam. Since October 2007 she has received six honorary doctorates. In 2013, she received the Julian L. Simon Memorial Award from the Competitive Enterprise Institute for her work examining factors in history that led to advancement in human achievement and prosperity. Her main research interests include the origins of the modern world, the misuse of statistical significance in economics and other sciences, and the study of capitalism, among many others.
Paulin Hountondji
Paulin Hountondji is a Beninese philosopher, politician and academic. Since the 1970s he has taught at the Université Nationale du Bénin in Cotonou, where he is Professor of Philosophy. In the early 1990s he briefly served as Minister of Education and Minister for Culture and Communications in the Government of Benin.