List of Famous people who are 71

Elpida Karayiannopoulou, is a Greek singer who was one of the most successful singers in Greece and the Greek diaspora in the 1970s and 1980s.

Mikhail Nikiforovich Vergeyenko is a Belarusian association football manager and former goalkeeper who managed the Belarus national football team between 1992 and 1994 and from 1998 to 1999. Vergeyenko also played for Dinamo Minsk between 1 July 1968 and 30 June 1983.

Elżbieta Towarnicka is a Polish operatic soprano who made an international career based at the Opera Krakowska. She is also known for singing for films, especially with music by Zbigniew Preisner including the theme song of Avalon.

Gilda is an Italian singer. In 1975 she won the Sanremo Music Festival with the song "Ragazza del sud".

John Edward Francis Hooper is a British journalist, author and broadcaster. He is currently the Italy and Vatican correspondent of The Economist.

John Greaves is a British bass guitarist and composer who was a member of Henry Cow and has collaborated with Peter Blegvad. He was also a member of National Health and Soft Heap, and has recorded several solo albums, including Accident (1982), Parrot Fashions (1984), The Caretaker (2001) and Greaves Verlaine (2008).

Hrant Alianak, also billed as Harant Alianak or Grant Aljanak, is an Armenian-Canadian actor and playwright. In 1988 he was nominated for the Genie Award "Best Performance by an Actor in a Supporting Role" for the 1987 film Family Viewing. He played Pete in the 1995 Adam Sandler movie Billy Madison. He portrayed Dr. Mendez in the 2009 Canadian horror film Pontypool. He also played Dr. Marek in the 1996 episode of Goosebumps, Stay Out of the Basement.