List of Famous people who born in 1980

Courtney Friel is a news anchor and reporter on television in the U.S. She currently works for KTLA-TV in Los Angeles, California. She previously covered entertainment for Fox owned-and-operated station KTTV in Los Angeles as well as other local stations and also the Fox News Channel. Prior to her move to Los Angeles, Friel was the entertainment reporter at Fox News Channel, contributing to a number of entertainment-related programs for the network's website, FoxNews.com. She was a frequent guest contributor on the Fox News late-night satire show Red Eye w/ Greg Gutfeld.

Ye Guangfu is a Chinese fighter pilot and People's Liberation Army Astronaut Corps (PLAAC) taikonaut selected as part of the Shenzhou program.

Yasutomo Kubo is a Japanese former professional baseball pitcher. He previously played for the Chiba Lotte Marines from 2005 to 2008, the Hanshin Tigers from 2009 to 2013, and the Yokohama DeNA BayStars from 2014 to 2017. In 2018, he played for the Sugar Land Skeeters of the Atlantic League of Professional Baseball.

Richard ("Ricky") Rafael Van Veen is an American entrepreneur and the Head of Global Creative Strategy at Facebook. Van Veen co-founded the comedy brand and humor website CollegeHumor and the video sharing website Vimeo. He was also CEO of Notional, a television production company spun out of CollegeHumor.

Davern L. Williams is a former American football defensive tackle in the National Football League for the Miami Dolphins and New York Giants, and a current defensive line coach. He played college football at Troy State University and was drafted in the seventh round of the 2003 NFL Draft. Williams was the defensive line coach for East Mississippi Community College, and was featured in the first two seasons of the Netflix series Last Chance U. Williams is currently the defensive line coach at Troy University, his collegiate alma mater.

Tadataka Unno is a Japanese jazz pianist.

Julien Absalon is a French cross-country mountain biker.

Lara Pulver is an English actress. She has played Erin Watts in the BBC spy drama Spooks, and Irene Adler on BBC's TV adaptation Sherlock. She won the 2016 Olivier Award for Best Supporting Actress in a Musical in the West End's revival of the hit Broadway musical Gypsy.

Jennifer Robinson is an Australian human rights lawyer and barrister with Doughty Street Chambers in London. Before coming to the Bar, she founded the Bertha Justice Initiative and is Director of Legal Advocacy for the Bertha Foundation in London. She is also an adjunct lecturer in Law at the University of Sydney Law School.

Mariya Yamada is a Japanese actress and a gravure idol. She won the title of "Miss Young Magazine" in 1996.