List of Famous people who born in 1979

Levent Kartop is a Turkish retired professional soccer player and later football manager who is an assistant manager of Denizlispor.

Kang Dong-chul, also known by his stage name Brave Brothers, is a South Korean rapper, record producer and songwriter for Brave Entertainment. He was a producer and composer for YG Entertainment from 2004 to 2008. In 2008, he started his own record label called Brave Entertainment. He has produced hit songs for After School, Sistar, 4Minute, T-ara, Son Dam Bi, Big Bang, Brown Eyed Girls, AOA, Hello Venus, RANIA and U-KISS. In 2009, he made his music debut with Attitude and later released Passionate on December 8. He has four groups under his record label: Brave Girls, Electroboyz, BIGSTAR, and DKB. Kang was a judge panelist on JTBC's Made In U program in 2011.

Hiroko Nagamine is a former Japanese badminton player. She was part of the Sanko Co, Ltd team. Nagamine graduated from the Kumamotoshinaijogakuin Chugakukoto School, and in 2000, she competed at the Summer Olympics in Sydney, Australia in the women's doubles event partnered with Satomi Igawa. Together with Igawa, they won international tournament in Cuba, Netherlands, Peru, and Chile.

Cheryl Chin is a Singaporean television and film actress. She was formerly known as a Singapore television actress and fashion model who competed in and won the Star Search Singapore finals in 2003. She also received the best actress award.