List of Famous people who born in 1978

Carlos Felipe Peña is a Dominican former professional baseball first baseman. He played in Major League Baseball (MLB) for the Texas Rangers, Oakland Athletics, Detroit Tigers, Boston Red Sox, Tampa Bay Devil Rays/Rays, Chicago Cubs, Houston Astros, and Kansas City Royals.

Anubhav Mohanty is an Indian actor, film producer, television personality and politician. He has a significant following in Odisha, referred as the "Bhaijaan", "Baadshah" of Ollywood.He is currently the highest paid actor of Ollywood.

Rashad Hussain is an American attorney, diplomat, and professor, who served as Associate White House Counsel, Ambassador to Muslim countries as U.S. Special Envoy of President Barack Obama to the Organisation of Islamic Cooperation (OIC), and the U.S. Special Envoy for Strategic Counterterrorism Communications. Hussain has also served on the National Security Council and in the Department of Justice as a trial attorney and a criminal and national security prosecutor. In his role as Envoy to the OIC, the second largest intergovernmental body after the UN, Hussain traveled to numerous countries and international gatherings, served as a foreign policy advisor, and met with foreign leaders and Muslim communities around the world. His position, "a kind of ambassador at large to Muslim countries was created by President George W. Bush," and the Washington Post described Hussain as member of the President Obama's "spiritual cabinet."

Juan Dixon is an American former professional basketball player and the current head coach for Coppin State University in Baltimore. Dixon led the University of Maryland Terrapins to their first NCAA championship in 2002 and earned Most Outstanding Player honors at the 2002 Final Four.

João Manuel Peixoto Ferreira is a Portuguese biologist and politician, serving as Member of the European Parliament for the Portuguese Communist Party; part of the European United Left–Nordic Green Left, where he was a vice-chair from 7 February 2012 to 30 June 2014, since 2009.

Michelle Lee is an American martial artist, stuntwoman and actress. Since the early 2000s, Lee has provided stunt work and motion capture for dozens of films, television series and video games, and also portrayed the roles of Ada Wong in Resident Evil 6 and Mileena in the second season of Mortal Kombat: Legacy.

Hakima Darhmouch is a Belgian journalist born on April 2, 1978 in Saint-Josse (Brussels) to Moroccan parents. She works on RTL-TVI, the private French-language television station.

Stephanie Murphy is an American politician from the state of Florida. She is a member of the Democratic Party and a member of the United States House of Representatives for Florida's 7th congressional district, having defeated incumbent John Mica in 2016. The district includes much of downtown and northern Orlando, as well as all of Winter Park, Maitland, Sanford and Altamonte Springs.

Alison Case Lundergan Grimes is an American lawyer and Democratic politician who was the secretary of state of Kentucky from 2012 until 2020. Grimes was elected in 2011 after defeating incumbent Elaine Walker in the Democratic primary and Republican candidate Bill Johnson in the general election. She was the Democratic nominee for the United States Senate in 2014, unsuccessfully challenging Republican incumbent and Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell. She was re-elected for a second term as Secretary of State of Kentucky on November 3, 2015, defeating Republican Stephen Knipper. Term limited in 2019, she was succeeded by Republican Michael Adams.

Emilio Marcos Palma is an Argentine man who was the first documented person born on the continent of Antarctica.