List of Famous people who born in 1978

Volkan Arslan is a Turkish football coach and former player, currently employed as an Assistant Manager for Adana Demirspor. Arslan played for Turkey at the U-16, U-17 and U-18 levels before he made his debut for the senior team in 2003.

Charis Yulianto is an Indonesian retired footballer. He normally plays as a central defender and his height is 183 cm. He is former player for Indonesia national football team and last played for Arema Indonesia (ISL).

Hossein Rezazadeh is an Iranian politician and retired weightlifter. Rezazadeh is a two-time Olympic champion, four-time World Weightlifting champion, and five-time Asian champion. Rezazadeh has won the Iran Sportsperson of the Year award four times, more than any other athlete in the country's history.

Mohamed Farouk is a retired Egyptian footballer.

Novita Dewi Marpaung is an Indonesian singer, who gained wide prominence after being the runner-up of the first season of X Factor Indonesia. She is known for her powerful vocals and skilled singing technics. Dewi is the daughter of legendary Batak singer Jack Marpaung. She started her music career in the mid-1990s through various singing competitions and festivals. She was the runner-up of Cipta Pesona Bintang, the weekly champion of Asia Bagus, and the winner of Festival Suara Remaja Vinolia (RCTI). Her highest achievement was as the grand champion of Astana International Song Festival 2005 in Kazakhstan.

Lila Tretikov is a Russian–American engineer and manager, who was executive director of the Wikimedia Foundation from 2014 to 2016.

Fernando Gaston Soler is an Argentine former football player who currently is the assistant coach for Persib Bandung. Since 2010, he holds a CONMEBOL A coaching license.

Mehmet Tarhan is a Turkish conscientious objector who was imprisoned for refusing military service. Tarhan had been sentenced to four years in a military prison for disobedience after refusing to wear a military uniform, a sentence that is evidently the longest ever given for such an offense in Turkey. He was released in March 2006 after spending several months in prison. As of 2014, he is a member of the party assembly of the Peoples' Democratic Party and a member of the executive committee of its consultative body Peoples' Democratic Congress.

Yang Chia-hsien is a contemporary Taiwanese writer, poet, essayist, and literary critic. She is also an assistant professor of Department of Chinese Literature at the National Tsing Hua University. Yang sees Lu Xun, Zhang Ai-ling and Yang Mu as the influences of her writings. Yang is regarded as an iconic poet of the cyber-age. Her works, including The Civilization of Holding One’s Breath and Sea Breeze and Sparks, are described as incorporating classical concepts and modern perceptions. Yang was also the youngest poet to be included in the Comprehensive Anthology of Contemporary Chinese Literature in Taiwan(Vol. 2), and the youngest entrant of the Thirty Years of Elite Taiwan Literature: Thirty New Poets.