List of Famous people who are 72

Ignazio Visco OMRI is an Italian economist and the current Governor of the Bank of Italy.

Juan Ruiz Anchía is a Spanish cinematographer. His work includes James Foley's adaptation of David Mamet's Glengarry Glen Ross and At Close Range.

Klaus Brandner is a German politician and member of the SPD.

Peter Agre is an American physician, Nobel Laureate, and molecular biologist, Bloomberg Distinguished Professor at the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health and Johns Hopkins School of Medicine, and director of the Johns Hopkins Malaria Research Institute. In 2003, Agre and Roderick MacKinnon shared the 2003 Nobel Prize in Chemistry for "discoveries concerning channels in cell membranes." Agre was recognized for his discovery of aquaporin water channels. Aquaporins are water-channel proteins that move water molecules through the cell membrane. In 2009, Agre was elected president of the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS) and became active in science diplomacy.