List of Famous people who born in 1979

Mikel Gaztañaga Echevarria is a Spanish former professional road racing cyclist.

Helmi Hasan is an Indonesian politician from the National Mandate Party who is the mayor of the city of Bengkulu.

Iain Canning is an English film producer best known for producing The King's Speech (2010), for which he won an Academy Award for Best Picture, and the BAFTA awards for Best Film and Best British Film. He was also nominated for an Academy Award for Lion (2016).

Sarah Al-Suhaimi is the first Saudi woman to chair the Saudi Arabian stock exchange (Tadawul), the largest stock market in the Middle East. She is leading comprehensive efforts to further connect the Saudi capital markets with the global system, in line with Vision 2030.

Gerardo Torrado Díez de Bonilla is a former Mexican professional footballer who played as a midfielder and current sporting director of the Mexican Football Federation. He is known as "El Borrego" for his bushy hair. His style of playing is commonly known to be rough in the field but with good recovery of the ball and effective passing abilities.

Jéssica Albiach Satorres is a Spanish journalist and politician. A member of Podemos and En Comú Podem, she was elected to the Parliament of Catalonia in 2015, and has led the latter party in that legislature since 2018.