List of Famous people who born in 1978

Neil Critchley is an English former footballer who played in the Football League First Division for Crewe Alexandra. He is now the head coach of Blackpool, having left his post as Liverpool's under-23s manager on 2 March 2020.

Meutya Viada Hafid is a member of the People's Representative Council. She currently Chairman of the Commission I, and is a part of the Golkar Party, for the 2009-2014, 2014-2019 and 2019-2024 term. Previously she had worked as a journalist for Metro TV. During Hafid's tenure at Metro TV, she had presented the news on several occasions.

Hiroyuki Kobayashi is a Japanese right-handed pitcher. He played in the 2006 World Baseball Classic for Japan.

Geoffrey Rashid Arend is an American film, television, voice and theater actor. He is best known for his role as Ethan Gross on the ABC drama series Body of Proof and Matt Mahoney on the CBS political drama series Madam Secretary.

Geneviève Schmidt is a Canadian actress. She is most noted for her performance in the film Compulsive Liar (Menteur), for which she was nominated for Best Supporting Actress at the 22nd Quebec Cinema Awards in 2020.

Maggie Elaine Haney is a former American gymnastics coach, serving as the head coach at MG Elite Gymnastics, Inc in Monmouth Junction, New Jersey. She is best known for coaching 2016 Olympic gold medalist Laurie Hernandez and 2018 World champion Riley McCusker. She was suspended for eight years by USA Gymnastics in April 2020 due to her abusive conduct.

Adam Peter Rickitt is an English actor, singer and model. He portrayed the role Nick Tilsley in the ITV soap opera Coronation Street from 1997 to 1999, and again from 2002 to 2004. He then joined the pop group 5th Story, set up for The Big Reunion, before joining the Channel 4 soap Hollyoaks from 2017 to 2020.

Mashonda Tifrere, is an American singer from Boston, Massachusetts. Tifrere appeared on several songs from hip hop artists in the 2000s. In 2004, she married record producer Swizz Beatz, and was once signed to his label Full Surface, under the aegis of J Records. Tifrere released her debut studio album January Joy in 2005. In 2011, Tifrere was a part of the first season of VH1's reality show Love & Hip Hop: New York.

Alireza Faghani is an Iranian international football referee who has been officiating in the Persian Gulf Pro League for several seasons and has been on the FIFA list since 2008. Faghani has refereed important matches such as the 2014 AFC Champions League Final, the 2015 AFC Asian Cup Final, the 2015 FIFA Club World Cup Final, the 2016 Olympic football final match. He has refereed matches in the 2017 Liga 1, 2017 FIFA Confederations Cup, 2018 FIFA World Cup in Russia and the 2019 AFC Asian Cup. Alireza migrated to Australia in September 2019.

Danny Cowley is an English professional football coach and former semi-professional player, who played as a midfielder. He was most recently manager of Huddersfield Town.