List of Famous people who born in 1979

Tie Ya Na or Tie Yana is a table tennis player from Hong Kong, China who won two silver medals at the 2006 Asian Games in the singles and doubles competitions.

Kinaryosih is an Indonesian actress and model.

Mykhailo Vitaliyovych Havryliuk is a Ukrainian public figure. He participated in the Euromaidan protests and was tortured by Berkut officers in January 2014. In October 2014, he was elected to the Verkhovna Rada during the Ukrainian parliamentary election, as a candidate of People's Front, by winning the situated in Irpin with 19.43% of the votes. In the 2019 Ukrainian parliamentary election, this time as a self-nominated candidate again in electoral district 95, he failed to regain his parliamentary seat. 512 people voted for him, thus he gained 0.56% of the (2019) votes of the district.

Dirk Matschenz is a Dutch male skeleton racer, who took part in the 2005/2006 Skeleton World Cup trying to qualify for the 2006 Winter Olympics. He previously competed for Germany, winning the German Championship in 2001.

Luciano da Silva or simply Triguinho, is a Brazilian left back, who currently plays for Red Bull Brasil.

Özgür Yıldırım is a German-Turkish film director.

Jose Pablo Cantillo is an American actor. He is best known for playing Ricky Verona in Crank, Hector Salazar in FX's Sons of Anarchy, and Caesar Martinez in AMC's The Walking Dead.

Lote Daulako Tuqiri is a former professional dual-code rugby footballer who primarily played as a winger across both codes. He represented Australia in both rugby league and rugby union, and Fiji in rugby league. Tuqiri first rose to prominence as a professional rugby league footballer for the Brisbane Broncos and Queensland Maroons, as well as the Fiji and Australia national sides. He was therefore a high-profile signing for rugby union in 2002, winning 67 caps for Australia and being a part of their 2003 and 2007 World Cup squads. He played rugby union for the Waratahs in the Super 14 and Leicester Tigers in England in season 2009–10. Tuqiri's contract with the Australian Rugby Union was terminated on 1 July 2009. No immediate reason was given, and Tuqiri returned to rugby league in 2010, playing for the Wests Tigers of the NRL. In September 2013, he signed a short-term contract with Irish rugby union giants, Leinster to play in the Pro12 in a three-month deal. Just 6 weeks out from the 2014 NRL season, Tuqiri signed with his third NRL club, the South Sydney Rabbitohs, on a one-year deal.

Jeanette Aw Ee-Ping, better known by her stage name Ou Xuan (欧萱), is a Singaporean actress, filmmaker, businesswoman and writer. Aw was named as one of the Seven Princesses of Mediacorp in 2006, after which she achieved wider success with her leading role in acclaimed drama The Little Nyonya. She was prominently a full-time Mediacorp artiste from 2002 to 2017 but continues to film on an ad-hoc basis and was once managed under Hype Records. Through her television career, Aw has established herself as one of the most popular and high-profile celebrities in Singapore. She has won 29 popularity and performance awards, the record number for a performer, at Singapore Mediacorp's Star Awards. Aw has published two books; Jeanette Aw: Definitions in 2012 and Sol's World: Somebody to Love in 2015. She also starred in musical Beauty World in 2015.

Sandy Casar is a French former professional racing cyclist, who competed as a professional between 2000 and 2013, all for the Française des Jeux team. His greatest results have been winning three stages of the Tour de France, as well the overall classification of the Route du Sud in 2005. He also won the one-day race Paris–Camembert in 2011.