List of Famous people who are 72

Shimon Dotan is an Israeli film director, screenwriter, and producer.

Claudine Monteil is a French writer, women's rights specialist, historian, and a former French diplomat.

Rafael Ángel Calderón Fournier served as President of Costa Rica from 1990 to 1994. He was the presidential candidate of the Social Christian Unity Party for the national elections held in February 2010, but resigned his candidacy on 5 October 2009, when he was sentenced to five years in prison for two counts of corruption.

Giuliano Pisapia is an Italian lawyer, politician, former mayor of Milan, former member of the Italian Parliament and member of the European Parliament.

William Legge, 10th Earl of Dartmouth,, styled Viscount Lewisham from 1962 to 1997, is a British politician and hereditary peer, usually known as William Dartmouth.

Bei Dao is the pen name of the Chinese-American writer Zhao Zhenkai. Among the most acclaimed Chinese-language poets of his generation, he has been repeatedly nominated for the Nobel Prize in Literature. In addition to poetry, he is the author of short fiction, essays, and a memoir. Known as a dissident, he is a prominent representative of a school of poetry known variously in the West as "Misty" or "Obscure" Poetry.

Richard Elfman is an American actor, musician, director, producer, screenwriter, journalist, author and magazine publisher.

Edith "Edie" Vonnegut is an American painter.