List of Famous people who are 79

Chang Po-ya is a Taiwanese politician who is the founder of the Non-Partisan Solidarity Union, a political party in Taiwan.

Dave Green is an English jazz bassist.

Sean Sexton Cunningham is an American filmmaker, director, producer, and writer. He is best known for directing and producing several horror films, beginning in the early 1970s.

Mikhail Morgulis is a Russian-language writer, editor and theologian. He was among the first Americans to broadcast sermons in Russian to millions of people living behind the Iron Curtain in Russia, Ukraine, Belarus and other former republics of the Soviet Union and to Russian-speaking audiences in the United States and Canada.

Jorge Ali Triana Varon is a Colombian theatre director and film director. He studied theater and film in Czechoslovakia and in Berlin. It is one of the founders of the Popular Theater of Bogota in 1967, starting as theatre director, directing more than 50 works. With the TPB he won several awards that have established him as one of the most important directors in the country. He has also participated in various theater festivals and has directed TV specials, as well as some series of "Revivamos nuestra historia". He directed over 30 TV series episodes and several short TV films.

Fernando Vallejo Rendón is a Colombian-born novelist, filmmaker and essayist. He obtained Mexican nationality in 2007.

Wolfgang Kramer is a German board game designer.

Katherine Justice is an American actress with many television guest star roles in the 1960s on through the 1980s and a few major film roles.

Maria Adelaide Amaral is a Portuguese Brazilian playwright, screenwriter, and novelist. A good deal of her plays concern disaffected urban professionals. She has been classed as among the two major women playwrights of Brazil, the other being Leilah Assunção.

Mohand Laenser is a Moroccan politician and current president of the Popular movement party and former Minister of the Interior. He was born in Imouzzer Marmoucha.