List of Famous people who born in 1979

Mikko Franck is a Finnish conductor and violinist.

Manuela Pfrunder is a Swiss graphic designer. She was chosen by the Swiss National Bank to design the ninth series of Swiss franc banknotes.

Antonio Alcinas Estelrich is a Spanish darts player playing in Professional Darts Corporation (PDC) events.

Mariya Ivanova Gabriel is a Bulgarian politician and a member of the GERB party serving as European Commissioner for Innovation, Research, Culture, Education and Youth since 2019. She served as Member of the European Parliament (MEP) from 2009 to 2017.

Fábio Henrique Simplício is a Brazilian retired footballer who played as a midfielder.

Kevin Sheppard is a United States Virgin Islands basketball player and former football striker. He became the subject of the documentary The Iran Job which covers his 2008-2009 season with the A.S. Shiraz team in Iran. He is the joint top scorer for his footballing national team

Samuel Martins Torres Santiago Mira, better known by his stage name Sam the Kid (STK), is a Portuguese rapper and producer from Chelas, in the civil parish of Marvila, Lisbon.

Artika Sari Devi Kusmayadi is an Indonesian actress, model and the winner of Puteri Indonesia 2004, She also representing Indonesia in 2005 Miss Universe pageant in Bangkok, Thailand. She is the first ever Indonesian and Sumatran to be placed as a finalist in Miss Universe history.

Sarah Schleper, also known as Sarah Schleper de Gaxiola, is an-American alpine skier with dual Mexican citizenship via her marriage to a Mexican citizen, whose career started in 1995.

Artur Avila Cordeiro de Melo is a Brazilian mathematician naturalized French working primarily on dynamical systems and spectral theory. He is one of the winners of the 2014 Fields Medal, being the first Latin American to win such an award. He has been a researcher at both the IMPA and the CNRS. He has been a professor at the University of Zurich since September 2018.