List of Famous people who born in 1978

Daniel Franzese is an American actor, comedian and activist best known for his roles in director Larry Clark's Bully and as Damian in Tina Fey's 2004 feature film Mean Girls. Franzese is the creator of several live comedy shows including the 2011 rock opera Jersey Shoresical: A Frickin' Rock Opera! and his one-man stand-up performance I've Never Really Made the Kind of Money to Become a Mess in 2013.

Vanessa-Mae also called Vanessa-Mae Vanakorn Nicholson, is a British violinist with album sales reaching several million, having made her the wealthiest entertainer under 30 in the United Kingdom in 2006. She competed under the name Vanessa Vanakorn for Thailand in alpine skiing at the 2014 Winter Olympics. She was initially banned from skiing because a qualifying race for her benefit was alleged to be corrupt, but the Court of Arbitration for Sport later nullified the ban, citing lack of evidence for her own wrongdoing or any manipulation. The International Ski Federation later had to issue an apology to her.

Britt Cagle Grant is an American attorney and judge who is a United States Circuit Judge of the United States Court of Appeals for the Eleventh Circuit. She is a former Justice of the Supreme Court of Georgia.

Kimberly Goss is an American singer and keyboardist, best known as frontwoman and co-founder of the Finnish metal band Sinergy.

Scott Piercy is an American professional golfer who plays on the PGA Tour.

Zanetor Agyeman-Rawlings (Dr.) is Ghanaian medical doctor and politician who is the eldest daughter of the 1st President under the 4th Republic of Ghana Jerry Rawlings (1993–2001) and former first lady Nana Konadu Agyeman (1993–2001). She is a member of the Ghanaian parliament for the Klottey-Korle Constituency and a medical doctor and humanitarian.

José María Romero Poyón, known as José Mari, is a Spanish former footballer who played as a forward.

Sandro Schwarz is a German football manager and a former player who is the manager of Russian club FC Dynamo Moscow.

Anthony Ryan Leslie is an American singer, songwriter, record producer, and entrepreneur from Washington, D.C.. Leslie has produced singles for a number of prominent artists in a variety of genres, ranging from R&B, hip hop, pop and gospel. Artists Leslie has worked with include Britney Spears, Beyoncé, Jojo, LL Cool J, Kid Cudi, Kanye West, Usher, Mary J. Blige, Chris Brown, Cory Gunz, Booba, Lloyd Banks, Fabolous and Red Café.

Alyson Dixon is an English long-distance-runner who has competed in several marathons and half marathons and won the 2011 Brighton Marathon. In September 2019 Alyson won the 50km world championship in Brasov, Romania with a time of 3:07:20 and is the current 50km world record holder. She is also an ambassador for St Benedict's hospice in Sunderland. She often states in interviews the hospice, which specialises in end of life care for cancer patients is close to her heart after losing family members to the illness. She competed for England at the 2014 Commonwealth Games, but did not finish due to an Achilles tendon injury. She first joined an athletics club as a girl when a friend did and because she wanted to go to Flamingo Land Resort as the club was going there.