List of Famous people who are 71

Fatikh Saubanovich Sibagatullin was a Russian politician. A member of United Russia, he served in the State Duma from 2007 to 2021.

Daniël Sahuleka is an Indonesian-Dutch singer-songwriter and performing artist.

Thomas J. Wright is an American television director, film director, artist, and set designer. Wright has directed episodes of Smallville, One Tree Hill, Firefly, and many other programs. He also worked extensively on Chris Carter's Millennium, on which he was a producer as well as directing 26 of the show's 67 episodes. He also directed the 1989 Hulk Hogan film No Holds Barred. He also was the artist who created the paintings used in the television horror anthology series Night Gallery.

Allan Cubitt is a British television, film, and theatre writer, director, and producer, best known for his work on Prime Suspect II and The Fall.

Van Jacobson is an American computer scientist, renowned for his work on TCP/IP network performance and scaling. He is one of the primary contributors to the TCP/IP protocol stack—the technological foundation of today’s Internet. Since 2013, Jacobson is an adjunct professor at the University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA) working on Named Data Networking.

Donato Francisco Ndongo-Bidyogo Makina, known as Donato Ndongo, is an Equatoguinean journalist and writer who was one of most prominent members of Hispanic African movement within the Spanish-speaking world.