List of Famous people who born in 1979

Ramón Melendi Espina, known as Melendi, is a Spanish singer-songwriter. His specialties are rock, flamenco, and rumba styles.

Jerramy Ryan Stevens is a former American football tight end.

Nargis Fakhri is a Pakistani-American film actress and model, who mainly appears in Hindi and English-language films. Her first role in film came with the 2011 romantic drama Rockstar, for which she was nominated for Filmfare Award for Best Female Debut. She subsequently played a war correspondent in the political thriller Madras Cafe (2013), and starred in the commercially successful comedies Main Tera Hero (2014), Spy and Housefull 3 (2016).

Markus Alexej Persson, also known as Notch, is a Swedish video game programmer and designer. He is best known for creating the sandbox video game Minecraft and for founding the video game company Mojang in 2009.

Bert Tischendorf is a German actor.

Atsushi Nomi is Japanese professional baseball pitcher for the Orix Buffaloes of the Nippon Professional Baseball (NPB). He has played in Nippon Professional Baseball (NPB) for the Hanshin Tigers.

Posani Naga Sudheer Babu is an Indian film actor and former professional Badminton player. He works primarily in Telugu films. Debuted as a lead actor in Shiva Manasulo Shruti (2012), Babu's successful films include Prema Katha Chitram (2013), Baaghi (2016), and Sammohanam (2018). He won SIIMA Special Jury award for his performance in Sammohanam.

Bonnie Aarons is an American actress and writer. She is best known for her roles as the bum in Mulholland Drive (2001), Baroness Joy von Troken in The Princess Diaries (2001) and its sequel, The Princess Diaries 2: Royal Engagement (2004), and the demon nun known as Valak in The Conjuring 2 (2016) and its subsequent spinoff, The Nun (2018). She appeared in the 2018 movie Adi Shankar's Gods and Secrets.

Svetlana Vasilyevna Khorkina is a retired Russian artistic gymnast. She competed at the 1996 Summer Olympics, the 2000 Summer Olympics, and the 2004 Summer Olympics. During her career, Khorkina won seven Olympic medals and twenty World Championship medals. Over time, she medaled in every event at the World Artistic Gymnastics Championships. She was also the first gymnast to win three all-around titles at the World Championships and only the second female artistic gymnast ever, after Nadia Comăneci, to win three European All-Around titles. Khorkina is often regarded as one of the most successful female gymnasts of all time.

Phillip Jerrod Heath is an American IFBB professional bodybuilder. He is a seven-time Mr. Olympia winner, having won the competition every year from 2011 to 2017. His latest victory tied him with Arnold Schwarzenegger for the joint-second number of all-time Mr. Olympia wins, behind Lee Haney and Ronnie Coleman, who are joint-first with eight wins each.