List of Famous people who are 79

Shay Healy is an Irish songwriter, broadcaster and journalist. He is best known for his role as host of Nighthawks, a RTÉ Television chat show of the late 1980s and early 1990s, and for composing "What's Another Year", Ireland's winning entry in the 1980 Eurovision Song Contest.

Masaomi Kondō is a Japanese actor.

Ruslan Imranovich Khasbulatov is a Russian economist and politician and the former Chairman of Parliament of Russia of Chechen descent who played a central role in the events leading to the 1993 constitutional crisis in the Russian Federation.

Gennaro Anthony Sirico Jr. is an American actor best known for his role as Peter Paul "Paulie Walnuts" Gualtieri in The Sopranos. He has also made numerous appearances in the films of Woody Allen.

Valeri Vladimirovich Polyakov is a Russian former cosmonaut. He is the holder of the record for the longest single stay in space in human history, staying aboard the Mir space station for more than 14 months during one trip. His combined space experience is more than 22 months.

Marie Fajardo Ragghianti is an American parole board administrator, famous as the whistleblower who exposed Tennessee Governor Ray Blanton's "clemency for cash" scandal in 1977-79.

Charles Negron II is an American singer-songwriter, best known as one of the three lead vocalists in the rock band Three Dog Night, which he helped form in 1968.

Carlos Cruz GCIH was a Portuguese radio and television journalist and talk-show host whose career ended after his involvement and eventual criminal conviction in relation to the Casa Pia scandal.

Judith "Judy" R. Faulkner is an American billionaire, and the CEO and founder of Epic Systems, a healthcare software company located in Wisconsin. Faulkner founded Epic Systems in 1979, with the original name of Human Services Computing. In 2013, Forbes called her "the most powerful woman in healthcare", and on the magazine's 2020 list of the world's billionaires she was ranked #836 and, as one of the wealthiest self-made women, she had a net worth of US$5.5 billion.

James Phillip Rooker is a former Major League Baseball pitcher and broadcaster.