List of Famous people who born in 1979

Marina Gatell Poch is a Spanish actress.

Ferman Akgül is a Turkish singer, songwriter, TV host and actor. He is the lead singer of Turkish rock band maNga. In 2015 he opened the independent record label 06 Records and released his first solo single "İstemem Söz Sevmeni" in early 2016.

Natalia Ponce de León is a Colombian woman born in Bogotá. A crime victim and survivor who successfully campaigned for a law targeting perpetrators of acid attacks in her country, in 2016, she was listed as one of BBC's 100 Women. She holds a bachelor's degree in Film Studies from Politécnico Grancolombiano University in Bogotá, Colombia.

Alexander Gordon Shelley is an Echo Music Prize-winning English conductor. He is currently music director of the National Arts Centre Orchestra in Ottawa, as well as principal associate conductor of the Royal Philharmonic Orchestra. Shelley was the unanimous winner of the 2005 Leeds Conductors Competition. From 2009 to 2017 he was chief conductor of the Nuremberg Symphony Orchestra. He is also artistic director of the Deutsche Kammerphilharmonie Bremen's Echo and Deutsche Gründerpreis winning "Zukunftslabor".

Susanne Elisabeth Wuest is an Austrian actress from Vienna.

Hideaki Sorachi is the pen name of a Japanese manga artist best known for Gin Tama. As of May 2016, the Gin Tama manga has sold 50 million units in Japan.

Artur Taymazov is an Ossetian-Uzbek-Russian wrestler and politician. He was Uzbekistan's most decorated Olympian before being stripped 2 gold medals for doping. In 2016, he was elected to the 7th State Duma of the Russian Federation representing Yabloko.

Guy Luyindula Makanda, known as Peguy Luyindula, is a French former professional footballer who played as a forward.

Aurore Lalucq is a French economist and politician who has been serving as a Member of the European Parliament since 2019.

Jun Hirose is a former professional Japanese baseball player. He played as an outfielder for the Hiroshima Toyo Carp.