List of Famous people who are 70
Maria Zilda Bethlem
Maria Zilda Bethlem, also known as Maria Zilda, is a Brazilian actress. She is known for the role Verônica in the Rede Globo telenovela Vereda Tropical.
Herson Capri
Herson Capri Freire is a Brazilian actor.
Edgardo José Maya Villazón
Edgardo José Maya Villazón is a Colombian lawyer, and former Inspector General of Colombia and Controller General of Colombia.
Richard Desmond
Richard Clive Desmond is a British publisher, businessman and former pornographer. He is the founder of Northern & Shell, which primarily operates in the businesses of property development, The Health Lottery and start-up ventures, but previously published a variety of pornographic titles and of celebrity magazines ; and owned Britain's Channel 5 and the pornographic television network, Portland, which it sold in April 2016 for less than £1m. Desmond is also a former owner of Express Newspapers, which was sold to Reach plc for £200m, of which £74m was invested in the Express newspapers pension scheme until 2027. According to the 2020 Sunday Times Rich List, Desmond was the 70th richest person in the United Kingdom with a £2 billion fortune. In 2020, Desmond was involved in controversy after pressuring the Secretary of State for Housing, Communities and Local Government Robert Jenrick to overrule the Planning Inspectorate and approve a housing development for Desmond's company. The timing of the decision saved the company £40 million but was later overturned.
Fakkir Mohamed Ibrahim Kalifulla
Fakkir Mohamed Ibrahim Kalifulla is a former judge of the Supreme Court of India.
Shuichi Murakami
Shuichi "Ponta" Murakami was a Japanese jazz drummer and session musician.
Davey Johnstone
David William Logan "Davey" Johnstone is a rock guitarist and vocalist, best known for his long-time collaboration with Elton John.
John Henshaw
John Henshaw is a British actor, best known for his roles as Ken Dixon the landlord in Early Doors, Wilf Bradshaw in Born and Bred and PC Roy Bramwell in The Cops. Often associated with characters who are "hard men", he played John Prescott in ITV drama Confessions of a Diary Secretary. In 2008 he appeared in an episode of Heartbeat.
La Costa
LaCosta Tucker is an American country music artist who recorded in the 1970s and 1980s as La Costa. The sister of country singer Tanya Tucker, LaCosta charted several singles of her own in the 1970s on the Billboard country singles charts, including the No. 3 "Get on My Love Train."
Nick Ut
Huỳnh Công Út, known professionally as Nick Ut, is a Vietnamese-American photographer for the Associated Press (AP) who works out of Los Angeles. He won both the 1973 Pulitzer Prize for Spot News Photography and the 1973 World Press Photo of the Year for "The Terror of War", depicting children in flight from a napalm bombing during the Vietnam War. His best-known photo features a naked 9-year-old girl, Phan Thị Kim Phúc, running toward the camera from a South Vietnamese napalm strike that mistakenly hit Trảng Bàng village instead of nearby North Vietnamese troops. On the 40th anniversary of that Pulitzer Prize-winning photo in September 2012, Ut became the third person inducted by the Leica Hall of Fame for his contributions to photojournalism. On March 29, 2017, he retired from AP. On January 13, 2021 Ut became the first journalist to receive the National Medal of Arts, the highest award given to artists and arts patrons by the federal government.