List of Famous people who are 72

Isabelle Weingarten was a French actress, model, and photographer.

Serhiy Petrovych Novikov was a Ukrainian & Russian Soviet judo Olympic champion. He competed for the Soviet Union at the 1976 Summer Olympics, where he won the gold medal in the men's heavyweight division. He also competed at the 1980 Summer Olympics, in the open category.

Vojislav "Voja" Brajović is a prominent Serbian actor.

Chiara Ingrao is an Italian politician.

David Peter Maxwell Hawker is a former Australian politician who served as a Liberal member of the Australian House of Representatives from May 1983 to July 2010, representing the Division of Wannon, Victoria, previously represented by former Prime Minister Malcolm Fraser.

Antonio "Antonello" Venditti is an Italian singer-songwriter and pianist who became famous in the 1970s for the social themes of his songs.

Ann Druyan is an Emmy and Peabody Award-winning American writer, producer, and director specializing in the communication of science. She co-wrote the 1980 PBS documentary series Cosmos, hosted by Carl Sagan, whom she married in 1981. She is the creator, producer, and writer of the 2014 sequel, Cosmos: A Spacetime Odyssey and its sequel series, Cosmos: Possible Worlds, as well as the book of the same name. She is credited with directing episodes of both series as well.