List of Famous people who born in 1979

Petra Němcová is a Czech model, television host and philanthropist who founded the Happy Hearts Fund. In 2017, the Happy Hearts Fund merged with All Hands Volunteers to create All Hands And Hearts - Smart Response, with Němcová assuming the role of co-founder and vice chair.

Antonio Enrique Álvarez Cisneros is a Venezuelan politician and a former professional baseball player.

Eric Johann Johnson is a Canadian actor known for playing Flash Gordon on the eponymous 2007-08 television series, Whitney Fordman on the science-fiction series Smallville, Detective Luke Callaghan on the police drama Rookie Blue, and Jack Hyde in the Fifty Shades film series.

Pierre Roland is an Indonesian actor. He is known as Pierre Roland and is famous for his role as a super hero in a hit tv series "Gerhana" (RCTI,1999-2002). He has also appeared on films and other TV series as well as music videos, advertisements and as TV presenter. His parents are of mixed Indonesian and European ancestry: father is English/Indonesian (Bengkulu) while his mother is Dutch/Indonesian (Javanese/Manadonese).

Deize Tigrona is a Brazilian funk carioca musician. Born in the São Conrado neighborhood of Rio de Janeiro, Deize worked as a house cleaner until her music career became successful. Her song “Injeção” was used as the basis for the M.I.A. song "Bucky Done Gun". Recently she has performed both with M.I.A. and with another popular funk carioca singer, Tati Quebra Barraco.

Fabián Núñez Napoles is a Mexican luchador, better known by the ring name Rey Escorpión. He is currently working for Lucha Libre AAA Worldwide (AAA), where he portrays a rudo or bad guy character. He is former the AAA World Tag Team Champions with El Texano Jr. and he is currently in his first reign as one third of the AAA World Trios Champions with La Hiedra and Texano Jr. He worked for Consejo Mundial de Lucha Libre (CMLL) from 2009 to 2016 and prior to that worked for Lucha Libre AAA Worldwide (AAA) in 2008, where he was known as Escorpión Negro. Núñez ring name is Spanish for "Scorpion King".

Charles Ying is a Cantopop singer and actor from Hong Kong. After singing the theme song Do I Still Love You of the film Leaving me, Loving you, he was signed by Leon Lai of East Asia Record Production and became one of the new hotly promoted new artists in 2005.

Andrew William Van Hekken is an American professional baseball pitcher who is a free agent.

Lena Okajima is the founder and chief executive officer of ALE Co., Ltd.

Michiyo Fujimaru is a Japanese synchronized swimmer who competed in the 2004 Summer Olympics.