List of Famous people who born in 1979

Dira Yulianti Sugandi is an Indonesian singer and actress. She was born in Bandung, West Java on July 29, 1979 into a family with a strong singing tradition. She began her singing career as a vocal performance major in the Music Department at Pelita Harapan, earning her bachelor's degree in 2006. She has performed with many Indonesian groups and musicians, such as SOULMATE, Maestro Big Band, Rieka Roslan, SOVA, Imam Praz Quartet, ARAB Jazz, and the Pelita Harapan University Big Band and with foreign musicians such as Incognito in Bandung, Surabaya, Makassar, Medan (2002) and in Bali, Singapore, Jakarta (2006) and with Keith Martin in Bandung (2005), and with the Yellowjackets in Jakarta and Bandung (2006). In 2009, she was awarded the Indonesian Young Jazz Talent Award at the Jakarta International Java Jazz Festival where she sang a song called Lucky in a duet with American singer, Jason Mraz.

Maxim Gennadyevich Maksimov is a retired Russian biathlete and biathlon coach. He took two individual medals in the Biathlon World Championships, a bronze in 2008 and a silver in 2011: these were also his only podiums in the Biathlon World Cup. In 2019 he was appointed as an assistant coach to the Russian national biathlon team, having previously been a regional coach in the Yamalo-Nenets Autonomous Okrug.

Mehdigholi Bayat is a French-Iranian sports administrator who serves as president of the Royal Belgian Football Association and managing director of Royal Charleroi Sporting Club.

Paula Ortiz Álvarez is a Spanish director, screenwriter and producer who works for Get in the Pictures Productions and Amapola Films, teaches Audiovisual Communication at the University of Barcelona, and collaborates with the University of San Jorge in Zaragoza.

Sachiko Kojima is a Japanese actress and voice actress who is affiliated with Mausu Promotion. She is married to Makoto Yasue, a sound director employed by Glovision. On Twitter under the name chiffons, she reported the birth of her first son on August 3, 2011 in a tweet on August 11, 2011, and the birth of her second son on May 15, 2013 in a tweet on May 17, 2013.

Agnieszka Grochowska is a Polish film and theatre actress.

Winnie Chang Shih-ying is a Taiwanese actress. She began her career on stage in 2002 and became known for her role in the 2010 film Seven Days in Heaven. In 2019, she starred in the film The Teacher and won the Golden Horse Award for Best Supporting Actress.

Robert Hartmann is a German football referee who is based in Wangen im Allgäu. He referees for SV Krugzell of the Bavarian Football Association.

Keita Masuda is a male badminton player from Japan.

Freya Lim, also known as Freya Lin, is a Malaysian Mandopop singer and radio deejay based in Taiwan. She is a Taiwanese PR. Her father is a Chinese Malaysian and her mother is a Taiwanese.