List of Famous people who born in 1979

Aleksandra Maria Dulkiewicz is a Polish lawyer and the mayor of Gdańsk since 11 March 2019.

Darío Anastacio Verón Maldonado is a former Paraguayan professional footballer that last played as a defender for Club Olimpia in the Paraguayan First Division. He also holds Mexican citizenship.

Jülide Sarıeroğlu is a Turkish labour economist, trade unionist, non-fiction writer and politician who served as the minister of labour and social security from 19 July 2017 to 10 July 2018 in the Cabinet of Yıldırım II.

Huang Yi is a Chinese actress and singer. She graduated from the TV Film Department of the Shanghai Institute of Oriental Culture.

Huang Wen-hsing is a Taiwanese Hokkien pop singer and actor. He was named the Best Taiwanese Male Singer at the 2011 Golden Melody Awards. He has appeared in several television series, including Love or Bread (2008), Monga Yao Hui (2011), and In The Family (2017).

Ahmed Tantawi or Ahmed Mohamed Ramadan Tantawi is an Egyptian journalist and politician. As of November 2019, he is a member of the 25-30 Alliance and a member of the Egyptian House of Representatives.

Takekaze Akira is a former professional sumo wrestler from Akita Prefecture, Japan. A former amateur sumo champion, he turned professional in 2002, reaching the top makuuchi division the following year. He was a runner-up in one tournament, earned two special prizes for Fighting Spirit, and one gold star for defeating a yokozuna. Takekaze is in first place for the slowest promotion from makuuchi debut to the third highest sekiwake rank in history. Aged 35 years and 2 months, he is in first place for the eldest to make his sekiwake debut post World War II. He was a member of Oguruma stable. He retired in January 2019 to become an elder of the Japan Sumo Association under the name Oshiogawa Oyakata.

Natalia "Natasha" Yarovenko is a Ukrainian born actress and model residing in Spain.

Arnaud Di Pasquale is a former professional tennis player from France.

Timo Tjahjanto is an Indonesian film director, producer, and screenwriter known for his works on the horror and action genres. Tjahjanto runs the film production company Merah Production.