List of Famous people who born in 1979

Simone Hanselmann is a German actress.

Brahim Asloum is a French boxer. He won the Light Flyweight Gold medal at the 2000 Summer Olympics.

Irina Eduardovna Slutskaya is a Russian former figure skater. She is a two-time World champion, two-time Olympic medalist, seven-time European champion, a four-time Grand Prix Final champion and a four-time Russian national champion. She won a record total of 17 titles on the Grand Prix circuit.

Lee Na-young is a South Korean actress. She is best known for her leading roles in TV Series Ruler of Your Own World (2002), Ireland (2004) and Romance Is a Bonus Book (2019) and film Someone Special (2004) and Maundy Thursday (2006). Aside from acting, Lee is also known for appearing in numerous commercials.

Alexander Nouri is a retired German footballer and current manager. He played professionally for 14 years with Werder Bremen, Seattle Sounders, KFC Uerdingen, VfL Osnabrück, Holstein Kiel and VfB Oldenburg.

Lin Wei-Chu is a Taiwanese baseball player who competed in the 2004 Summer Olympics.

Erika "Riki" Lindhome is an American actress, comedian, and musician. She is best known for roles in television shows including Garfunkel and Oates, Gilmore Girls, House, The Big Bang Theory, and United States of Tara, and for the comedy music duo Garfunkel and Oates, which she formed with Kate Micucci. She also hosts the Nerdist podcast Making It. She starred alongside Natasha Leggero in the Comedy Central series Another Period.

Nathan Joel Marquardt is a retired American mixed martial artist who competed in the middleweight and welterweight division of the Ultimate Fighting Championship. A professional competitor since 1999, he is a former Strikeforce Welterweight Champion and a three-time Pancrase Middleweight Champion.

Arpad Sterbik Capar is a retired handball player who represented the national teams of Yugoslavia and Spain.

Jana Schimke is a German politician of the Christian Democratic Union (CDU) who serves as member of the Bundestag, the German federal parliament.