List of Famous people who born in 1979

Ronald Susilo is a Singaporean badminton player of Chinese Indonesian descent.

Masae Ueno is a Japanese female judoka who competed in the Athens 2004 Olympics and the Beijing 2008 Olympics. Ueno was born January 17, 1979 in Asahikawa Hokkaidō. In 2004, she earned Japan's fifth Olympic Gold Medal in ten events, taking the 70 kg women's judo event. She also won the Olympic Gold Medal in 2008.

Ilona Otto is a German voice actress. She was originally a theater actress, but gave this up later. She then went on to earn a diploma in psychology at the Free University of Berlin.

Christopher Doran, from Waterford, Ireland was the winner of Ireland's You're a Star 2003-2004 talent search competition to find Ireland's Eurovision Song Contest entry. The competition held auditions throughout Ireland, and the winners went through to the final stages, with one act eventually decided on. The show was aired on RTÉ. He went on to represent Ireland in the Eurovision Song Contest 2004 with "If My World Stopped Turning".