List of Famous people who are 71

Jody David Scheckter is a South African business proprietor and former motor racing driver. He competed in Formula One from 1972 to 1980, winning the Drivers' Championship in 1979 with Ferrari. Scheckter remains the only driver from the continent of Africa to win the Formula One World Championship.

Boris Safarovich Ebzeyev is a Karachay politician and judge. He served as a judge on the Constitutional Court of Russia from 1991 to 2008 and as president of Karachay–Cherkessia between 2008 and 2011.

Oesman Sapta Odang is an Indonesian politician of the People's Conscience Party (Hanura), serving as the speaker of the Regional Representative Council and deputy speaker of the People's Consultative Assembly. He had also served in the latter position between 2002 and 2004.

Gérard Paul Philippe Wertheimer is a French billionaire businessman based in New York City and Geneva, who owns Chanel in partnership with his brother, Alain.

Yoshinobu Nisaka is the governor of Wakayama Prefecture in Japan, first elected in 2006.

Hochen Tan is a Taiwanese politician. He was the Minister of Transportation and Communications of the Republic of China from 20 May 2016 until 16 July 2018. He is the elder brother of Hocheng Hong.

Alfonso Carlos Romo Garza, known as Alfonso Romo, is a Monterrey businessman, agro-industrialist. He has interests in banking and Mexican politics. He founded the Opción Ciudadana party in 2005.

Leonard Whiting is an English actor and singer who is best known for his role as Romeo in the 1968 Zeffirelli film version of Romeo and Juliet, a role which earned him the Golden Globe Award for New Star of the Year – Actor.

Roza Isakovna Otunbayeva is a Kyrgyz diplomat and politician who served as the President of Kyrgyzstan from 7 April 2010 until 1 December 2011, becoming the first female Central Asian Head of State. She was sworn in on July 3, 2010, after acting as interim leader following the 2010 April revolution which led to the ousting of President Kurmanbek Bakiyev. She previously served as Minister of Foreign Affairs and as head of the parliamentary caucus for the Social Democratic Party of Kyrgyzstan.

Carlos Aguiar Retes is a Mexican cardinal of the Roman Catholic Church who serves as the Archbishop of Mexico City. He has served as an officer of the Mexican Episcopal Conference and the Latin American Episcopal Conference (CELAM) and been president of both. He helped draft the landmark mission statement CELAM issued at the close of its 2007 conference in Aparecida. He is the former archbishop of Tlalnepantla, and before that, served as the Bishop of Texcoco. David Agren of the Catholic News Service calls him a "longtime ally" of Pope Francis who combines "intellectual finesse with a pastoral passion".