List of Famous people who are 71

Yeslam bin Muhammad bin 'Awad bin Ladin better known as Yeslam bin Laden, also written Yeslam Binladin, as he prefers to spell it, is a Swiss businessman and the half-brother of the deceased al-Qaeda leader, Osama bin Laden.

Mohammad Ibrahim al-Shaar is a Syrian military leader who was later named Syrian Minister of the Interior.

Ian Hideo Levy is an American-born Japanese language author. Levy was born in California and educated in Taiwan, the US, and Japan. He is one of the first Americans to write modern literature in Japanese, and his work has won the Noma Literary New Face Prize and the Yomiuri Prize, among other literary prizes.

Tan Hock Eng is a Malaysian Chinese business executive and philanthropist. He is the CEO of Broadcom Inc. He was the highest earning CEO in the US in 2017, earning US$103.2 million that year.

Ip Yut Kin is chief executive officer of Apple Daily Limited and Apple Daily Publication Development Limited, the publishers of the Hong Kong and Taiwan versions of the Apple Daily. Ip is also a director of Next Media Limited.

Hou Sheng-mao is Taiwanese physician. He was the Minister of Department of Health from 2005 to 2008.